Nobel laureates to local writers, award-winning authors to debut novelists, Bollywood bigwigs to musicians, the historic Diggi palace city is overflowing with authors, publishers and book lovers as the Jaipur Literature Festival kicked off on
Ahmed Rashid, Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, G Parthasarathy, Anatol Lieven at a session moderated by Suhasini Haider on “Descent into Chaos- Pakistan on the Brink” during the Jaipur Literature Festival.
A delegate poses for a picture with a local artist during the Festival.
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor speaks at a session during the Jaipur Literature Festival 2015.
Participants hail from backgrounds ranging from experts in international relations, history and environment to those specialising in human nature, regional literature, art, photography, Bollywood, theatre and travel.
“It’s now celebrated as an annual journey of literature and critical thinking. The deliberations upon changing society, changing patterns and changing world have transformed the way south Asian literature is viewed across the world,” she said.
Calling the festival an annual literary pilgrimage, festival Director Namita Gokhale said, the event had transformed since its debut in Neemrana in 2002.
“Plurality of voices holds importance in countries like ours where there is great inequity and the only way to bring out equity and progress is by sharing knowledge, vision and education,” he said.
“Authors do not write because they have a right of violation, they do not write necessarily to please someone...for them its important to put their thoughts on paper for a better tomorrow.
While the main event is being hosted at the historic Diggi Palace, other venues including the Clarks Amer, Narain Niwas and two Amer Fort and Hawa Mahal are also roped in. Festival Producer Sanjoy Roy welcomed the “plurality of voices” at the mega
Over the course of the festival, nearly 300 speakers from various fields are expected to speak on a series of thought provoking issues ranging from gender equality to the global economic crisis and other issues relating to literature, art and films
Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, who inaugurated the five day event, took a trip down memory lane and recalled the origins of the festival in the year 2006.“When I came first to the festival there were around 40 people and last year it
The Literature Festival in its eighth edition, was off to a grand start with the whose who of the literary world trooping in to the pink city to participate in one of Asia’s biggest literary jamboree.
Author, poets, Bollywood celebrities at 8th Jaipur Lit Fest