The Directors of the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival are William Dalrymple and Namita Gokhale and the festival is produced by Sanjoy K. Roy, Sheuli Sethi and Teamwork Productions.
More photos from the previous Festival and celebrations…
William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple is the author of seven acclaimed works of history and travel, including City of Djinns, which won the Young British Writer of the Year Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; the best-selling From the Holy Mountain; White Mughals, which won Britain’s most prestigious history prize, the Wolfson, and The Last Mughal which won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize.
He divides his time between New Delhi and London, and is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New Statesman and The Guardian. He published Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India to great acclaim in October 2009, and the book went straight to the top of the Indian bestseller list. He is a director of the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival.
Namita Gokhale
Namita Gokhale is a writer and publisher. Her first novel, Paro: Dreams Of Passion, caused an uproar due to its candid sexual humour. Her other books include, Gods Graves And Grandmother, A Himalayan Love Story, Mountain Echoes, The Book of Shadows and The Book Of Shiva. Shakuntala, The Play of Memory, published in 2005, was the first Indian novel to be released simultaneously in Hindi and English.
Gokhale’s retelling of The Mahabharata for young readers, The Puffin Mahabharata, was released in January 2009. In Search of Sita, an anthology of essays co-edited with Dr.Malashri Lal, was published in October 2009.
Namita Gokhale is a director of Yatra Books, which co-publishes with Penguin India in English, Hindi, Marathi and Urdu. Besides being a co-director of the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival, Namita Gokhale conceptualized the International Festival of Indian Literature, Neemrana 2002, and the Africa-Asia Literary Conference, Neemrana 2006. She is committed to showcasing the best of Indian writing and engaging the vibrant Indian languages in a creative dialogue with each other and the rest of the world.
Sanjoy K. Roy
Sanjoy K Roy and Mohit Satyanand established Teamwork Films in 1989, a highly versatile production house with wide ranging interests in the performing and visual arts, social sector and films and television.
He is the Managing Director of Teamwork Films with offices in Hong Kong, Johannesburg, London, New Delhi and Singapore and has directed and produced over 1000 hours of a wide range of films and television shows, including drama series, game shows, news magazines, and lifestyle programmes. He has received the National Award for Excellence and also the IDPA award for Best Documentary and Best Director, for the film `Shahjahanabad’.
In 2008 he designed and directed – A Tribute to Africa, in honour of 15 visiting heads of State and included 250 artistes from 15 African countries. He was invited to direct and design the Closing of the Commonwealth Games Arts Festival 2006 – Melbourne and has recently opened a new theatre production Bollywood Love Story – A Musical which has been a blockbuster wherever it has toured.
Film co-productions have included documentaries for National Geographic and Discovery Channel, Al Jazeera – English and Doordarshan along with several feature films with Bollywood and International Directors.
He is a founder trustee of Salaam Baalak Trust working to provide support services for street and working children in the inner city of Delhi and the Ishara Puppet Theatre Trust.
Teamwork Productions
Teamwork is a highly versatile entertainment company, with roots in the performing arts, social action, and the corporate world. Our expertise lies in the area of Entertainment including Television, Film–documentary and feature, Event Management, Social Communication, Creation and Development of Contemporary Performing and Visual Arts Festivals across the world, and in nurturing new talent across arts forms.
We currently produce 16 annual performing and visual arts festivals across the world including in Edinburgh, Hong Kong, Jaipur, London, Madrid, Melbourne, Mumbai, New Delhi, New York, Perth, Singapore, South Africa and New Zealand.
Teamwork produces The Asian Festival of 1st Films, an annual Film and Documentary Festival to celebrate excellence for first time producers, directors, writers, and cinematographers, actors and documentary makers from the Asian Diaspora in Singapore and the annual week long Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards in Delhi (META).
The grand finale of the Commonwealth Games Arts Festival was especially produced for Festival Melbourne 2006 by Teamwork. Teamwork also produces The Jaipur Literature Festival , an annual event where over a hundred authors from all over the world come together over a five day period.
The India Africa Forum Summit 2008 produced by Teamwork featured A tribute to Africa with over 250 artistes from 15 African countries and India performing together for the first time in an extravaganza staged at India’s historic Old Fort and at the Presidential Residence Delhi in honour of the Visiting Heads of State from Africa.
We have recently concluded the third annual 9 week Shared History- The Indian Experience Festival in South Africa . Bollywood Love Story – A Musical, with a 35 member cast, produced and directed by Teamwork has recently toured Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, South Africa, Spain where it performed to packed houses and received standing ovations.
The Embassy of France in India in association with CULTURESFRANCE and co-produced by Teamwork Productions is creating and producing a large multi faceted cultural festival of France in India titled Bonjour India!, from December 2009 to February 2010. Bonjour India events will be spread over 17 cities of India and will feature the best of French Music, Theatre, Art, Photography, Food, Literature, Film and Business.