This time there were no names I knew so it was more to check out the place. Vinod said he would go all three days and I found a nice gap on the afternoon of the 26th so I headed straight there from the Heritage walk. We went straight into lunch at the food court, ate a bit and then sat in a panel discussing Digital something - Santosh Desai (I liked his 'Mother Pious Lady') and Vandana Vasudevan. Then we strolled over to get a look at Nobel Prize winner Abhijit Banerjee and it was full house so we sauntered back to the food court and snacked on stuff.
The best venue for HLF for me has been HPS. I loved the food court there - a nice open tent where you could sit for hours!
Met Vijay of Blue Pencil, Praveen, Suresh, Sridhar Sattiraju, Vinod Pavarala, Serish Nanisetty, Naren, Shwetha among others Bought Serish's book on Hyderabad 'Golconda Bagnagar' and got it signed. Vinod recommended it highly. I also wanted to meet Namita Devidayal if I could but missed her. I loved her 'Music Room' which I remember was instrumental in making me visit the Mahalakshmi Temple in Kolhapur.
I never get the energy at Sattwa which is too dissipated.
Anyway, we split at around 430 because I had to go someplace.
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