Eleven winners of the second chapter of CIMA Awards, presented by CIMA with The Telegraph as an associate sponsor — (L-R) P.C. Chandra Merit Award winner Dasarath Das, Jury Award winner Sanksha Brota Paul, P.C. Chandra Merit Award winner Akhil Mohan, McLeod Russel Special Mention winner Harendranath Mahato, Jury Award winner Sahil Ravindra Naik, CIMA Award winner Harendra Kumar Kushwaha, CIMA Award second runner-up Mantu Das, CIMA Award first runner-up Sarat Roy, P.C. Chandra Merit Award winner Sanam C. Narayanan, McLeod Russel Special Mention winner Swapnesh Harichandra Vaigankar, and P.C. Chandra Merit Award winner Pratap Chandra Chakraborty at The Oberoi Grand on Saturday evening. The Director’s Choice winner, Abhishek Narayan Verma, was not present at the ceremony. With the winners on the stage were three guest speakers at the International Symposium (from far left) Alanna Heiss, former founder and director of PS1 and founder director, Clocktower Productions, Jay Levenson, director, International Programme, MOMA, Chris Dercon, former director, Tate Modern and intendant of Volksbuhne, Berlin. Picture by Pabitra Das 

Catching the wrong train can take you to the right station.… These words and more from Saroo Brierley were greeted with loud applause on Saturday evening as the Indian-born-Australian businessman-cum-author recounted his journey at the Kolkata Literature Festival (KLF), held in association with The Telegraph, at Milan Mela. Saroo’s memoir A Long Way Home has inspired Lion, the film with six Oscar nominations starring Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman. Saroo got separated from his birth mother in Khandwa, MP, at age five when he accidentally boarded a train that took him to Calcutta. He wandered the streets of Calcutta for weeks before he was put in an orphanage and then adopted by an Australian couple who took him to their country. Thanks to Google Earth, Saroo embarked on a journey to trace his birth mother, and was finally reunited with her 25 years later. And now, he will show Lion to her “in a couple of days” in Indore. Saroo, who has been to Calcutta 15 times in the last four years, calls himself “destiny’s child” and is now working on a prequel to A Long Way Home. Picture by Arnab Mondal

Bestselling writer Chetan Bhagat was the showstopper for the three-day Kolkata Literature Festival, being held in association with The Telegraph, at Milan Mela. Ensuring that the closing session of KLF’17 on Saturday was packed — and spilling out — the Five Point Someone writer spoke about everything from his banking days in Hong Kong to his waxing experience for One Indian Girl, which he wrote in a woman’s voice. Politics, power, paisa (demonetisation)... there was nothing that wasn’t covered. One of the many one-liners that kept the audience in splits? “Bob Dylan ko Nobel Prize mila hai toh mujhe bhi kabhi mil sakta hai.” Picture by Arnab Mondal

Durjoy Datta, the author of best-selling romances, was back at KLF on Saturday. So were his fans — screaming, gushing, hanging on to his every word and queuing up in droves to get his books autographed at the end of his session with 
Jash Sen in which he conversed on life, love and writing. Durjoy grew up in Delhi and lives in Mumbai but his parents live in Calcutta. “And I love all things Bengali,” said the author of The Girl of My Dreams. Proof of his Bong connect? He stopped watching cricket after Sourav Ganguly quit! Picture by Arnab Mondal