Banaras Lit Fest
4th – 7th Feb 2027 Taj Ganges, Varanasi
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Pankaj Dubey

Pankaj Dubey lives in Mumbai and writes in both Hindi and English. He is a novelist, filmmaker, and podcaster. Storytelling is his way of life, and he believes every city carries within it a few untold stories.

All ten of his novels, published by Penguin Random House India, rise from the soil of contemporary India, big dreams from small towns, the search for identity, and the tangled relationships in which we sometimes find ourselves and sometimes lose ourselves.

A former journalist with BBC World Service, London, Pankaj has also been part of the Writers’ Residency in Seoul, South Korea. For his contribution to literature and storytelling, he has been honoured by the Hindi Academy of the Government of Delhi and by the House of Lords, British Parliament. In July this year, he also received the Excellence Award for Literature from the Governor of Jharkhand.

In his world, a story is not just told. It finds its way back to our own city, our own people, and our own lives.

Pankaj Dubey is a pop-culture storyteller, novelist, and host of the YouTube chat show Small Towns, Big Stories.

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Thursday 4 to Sunday 7 February 2027, Taj Ganges

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