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After two very happy years establishing our core event in Kerala we are re-designing and extending our festival in India. We are developing the new concept in partnership with our colleagues at Teamwork and will be announcing the scope of the festival in the New Year.

Events from the 2010 and 2011 festivals will be freely available as podcasts – coming shortly to the Hay Festival Archive.

Hay Festival Kerala

Hay Festival Kerala is produced with Teamwork Productions.

  • Fair Trade Alliance Kerala

    While visiting the festival, visit sustainable organic multi-crop farms, and witness the attempts of a group of Kerala farmers to recapture their homestead farming traditions against the onslaught of mono-crop commercial agriculture. Their practices are critical to protect the biodiversity of the Nilgiri Biosphere.

    Find out more...

  • Hay Festival Dhaka

    Following Hay Festival Kerala, on 21 November 2011 a one-day pilot festival took place in Dhaka, bringing together writers and thinkers from Bangladesh and Britain to share stories and ideas in the spirit of Rabindranath Tagore in his 150th anniversary year.

    More about Hay Festival Dhaka...

  • Geldof and Sting

    There was a spectacular end to the inaugural Hay Festival held in Trivandrum, Kerala in India in 2010.

    Bob Geldof joined on stage by Sting for festival finale in Kerala

  • Welsh voices at Hay Festival Kerala 2010

    National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke plus Menna Elfyn and Paul Henry took part in the festival, which was held at the Kanakakunnu Palace.

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2011 highlights

  • Shashi Tharoor
  • Rukmini Nair
  • Anupama Raju
  • Jung Chang
  • K. Satchidanandan
  • Simon Armitage
  • Arundhati Subramaniam
  • Simon Singh
  • Anna Funder
  • Germaine Greer
  • Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
  • Anita Nair
  • and many others...

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