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Date(s) - 11/12/2020
3:00 pm - 4:45 pm

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PILF 2020: The Power of Social Media

Friday, 11th December at 3 pm 

Free and open to all

Social media has changed the way we think, work, behave and feel. It is a boon for budding and established professionals to showcase their work and it keeps netizens connected from around the world. However, it has also invaded our lives to the point where we feel compelled to share the most minute details of our lives.

Social media is powerful but where should we draw the line? Join French writer and translator François Bon for a riveting conversation with Samrat Phadnis of Sakal Media Group, Yair Agmon (Israel) and Dipankar Mukherjee of Readomania. 

This event is free and open to all and is presented by Vishwakarma Publications, with the support of the French Institute in India and Alliance Française de Pune as a part of the Pune International Literary Festival. This year marks the festival’s eighth edition overall and first edition online

About the Panelists:

François Bon

Photo Credit & Special thanks  :  DR Philippe Matsas, 2006

François Bon was born in Vendée, in 1953. Published his first book, Sortie d’usine, in 1982. Among numerous other books, fiction or autobiography, a trilogy on the rock (biographies of the Rolling Stones, Dylan, Led Zeppelin). He experimented in the 2000s drama and documentary film, and creative writing workshops. Currently, he teaches literary arts at the National School of Arts Paris-Cergy. He is the founder & CEO of Tiers Livre Éditeur.  

 

Yair Agmon

 

Writer, director, film professor, and columnist, Yair Agmon is a graduate of the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School, and has published three works of fiction and two of nonfiction. His short films were screened in numerous festivals and were nominated for the Ophir Awards. His documentary web series, The Hitchhikers, co-created with Elad Schwarz, had two successful seasons. His first feature-length documentary, Rachel Agmon, was screened in the Official Competition at the last Jerusalem Film Festival.

Samrat Phadnnis

Current Resident Editor of Pune Sakal, Samrat Phadnis, made an early foray into digital journalism when the term was hardly known in India. His journey provides a rare insight into the growth of digital journalism in regional media through the pioneering strides he made at Sakal and paradoxically also into how to keep print media relevant in today’s mobile age.

Dipankar Mukherjee

A management graduate from IIT Madras, Dipankar Mukherjee had worked for the consulting industry for almost eight years, before taking the road less travelled, to pursue his passion for reading and writing. He is a publisher and director at Readomania. 

The entire programme for Pune International Literary Festival is given on pilf.in.