The 2025 edition of Ananke’s Festival of Literature welcomes another year of meaningful collaboration with one of its key allies, Readomania. The three-day digital event, beginning on April 29th and concluding on World Labor Day, May 1st, 2025 will live-stream engaging panel discussions and dialogue on its YouTube Page.
The event will host a series of Readmania panels focusing on topics including: Emerging voices from South Asia, Building a career in writing, The beginning of the end for diversity.
Readomania is an independent publishing house that drives narratives, influences points of view, aspires to be a catalyst for change, and provides meaningful entertainment to readers. We started in September 2014 and our annual publishing list was streamlined from 2016 onwards. Our list includes literary, midlist, and commercial fiction across multiple genres, short stories, poetry, non-fiction, and children’s fiction. The current focus of our publishing programme is diversity in content. We want to bring in as many flavors as possible. We are delving into mythology retelling, historical fiction, period drama, crime, thriller, romance, short stories, poetry, children’s fiction, humor etc.
Talking about the collaboration and the festival, Founder Readomania, Dipankar Mukherjee said: “We are proud of our partnership with Ananke, an organisation that is doing phenomenal work for the last 10 yrs, in bringing women voices to the forefront. The association brings in joy and happiness to our authors and readers.”
“I am absolutely thrilled to see this amazing partnership with Readomania continue, thrive and keep on growing. We have had some many engaging and impactful conversations take place and this has always been our mutual goal – cross cultural exchange, initiating positive narratives and offering diverse as well as alternative perceptions for our audience. This can only be possible with partners like Dipankar and Readomania!” said Sabin Muzaffar, Founder Ananke and Festival Director.
This year’s Festival theme is Speaking Truth to Power. The 2025 Edition of Ananke’s Festival of Literature (AnankeWLF) arrives at a time when the world is yet again facing an onslaught on free speech and freedom of expression that fights against the tyranny of censorship, neo-colonial regimes of oppression, cantankerous clamor of information and systemic indoctrination. Moving past the time of looking back, taking stalk and reflecting, this is the moment of subversive discourse and speaking truth to power.
In the fifth edition of the festival, conversations will focus on the manufacturing and production of truth and its relationship with the hegemony of socio-economic, cultural and political structures, apparatuses as well as consciousness. The phenomena of power and that of voice in post-modern, neo-colonial, and digital dystopian times, wielded, leveraged and embodied in politico-economic and social structures and ensembles but also by the sub-altern and the zeitgeist of our present time.
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