Mental health, cookbook tales take centre stage at lit fest
The Hindu
Actors Sid Mallya, Samir Soni, economist Abhijit Bhattacharya grace day two
The 12th edition of the Hyderabad Literary Festival completed a circle on day two, when it started with two young professionals talking about their career shift, to end with focus lights on a world-renowned economist taking a break to write a cookbook.
The day began with Sidhartha Mallya, the actor-son of fugitive liquor baron Vijay Mallya, and actor Samir Soni revealing to moderator Anu Acharya in a session on mental health titled ‘Minding the mind’, the period of churning in their life that brought about major life-changing decisions for them.
Mr. Mallya shunned the opportunity offered by inheritance in India and chased his passion, while Soni got disenchanted with life as an investment banker. Both penned their thoughts on mental well-being in their respective works, ‘If I’m honest’ and ‘My experiment with silence’.
