The festival invites established and emerging writers, publishers, journalists, academics, readers and students from all over India and abroad.
It was inaugurated by Yogesh Ghadvi, Gujarati novelist Raghuveer Chaudhari and British deputy high commissioner Geoff Wain.
Some of the notable speakers were: Madhur Bhandarkar, Piyush Mishra, Anuja Chandramouli, Anil Chavda, Vinod Joshi and Chinu Modi.
[14] The third edition of the festival, inaugurated by Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, was held on 24 and 25 November 2018 at Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat (KCG), Ahmedabad, featuring more than 60 speakers including Vivek Oberoi, Harsh Brahmbhatt and Vishnu Pandya.
[5][16] For the first time, the festival launched a multi-language Kavi sammelan (poetry-gathering) which featured poets from Gujarati, Hindi, Urdu, French, Bengali and English languages.
Some of the notable speakers were: Sushant Singh, Mallika Sarabhai, Kingshuk Nag, Frédérick Lavoie and Gael de Kerguenec.