The Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival was created as Apeejay Trust´s gift to the culture loving people of Kolkata. Initiated in 2010, by our group company, Apeejay Oxford Bookstores, it was curated as a literary festival should be – not a jamboree but an intimate, in-depth engagement with books and ideas. The festival unveiled the complex layered-ness of Kolkata, its vibrancy of thought and its engagement with the literary world at large. It celebrates the city, its love for books, music, art and film, with some of finest creative minds in the nation and overseas as events unfolded at heritage sites in Kolkata and in the ambience of a heritage bookstore steeped in tradition – the then 90–year old Oxford Bookstore on Park Street.