21st January 2010: Day 1
22nd January 2010: Day 2
23rd January 2010: Day 3
24th January 2010: Day 4
25th January 2010: Day 5
Speakers
Music
21st January 2010: Day I
22nd January 2010: Day II
23rd January 2010: Day III
24th January 2010: Day IV
25th January 2010: Day V
by Esther Freud, Ali Seth, Jaspreet Singh and introduced by Sadia Shepherd
Three authors with different cultural backgrounds and childhood memories led a contemplative discussion about how childhood stories have influenced their writings. Sadia Shepherd introduced the morning event by stating that they would explore how ‘the stories you grow up [...]
Niall Ferguson moderated by Omair Ahmad, presented by Goldman Sachs
In a dynamic and thorough session, Ahmad and Ferguson investigated the nature of capitalism and economics today. Ferguson said that in terms of the conditions that had led to the recent global recession, ‘the relationships in capitalism are as volatile [...]
Jaipur, 25th January 2010 – After a colourful and buzzing five days of literature, music and fun, The 5th Edition of DSC Jaipur Literature Festival draws to a close. This year saw an enormous increase in the number of footfalls.
Some of the highlights for DSC Jaipur Literature Festival – day 5 were:-
Homepage Readings
The session entitled [...]
Jaipur, 24rd January 2010 – The festivities continue at the 5th edition of DSC Jaipur Literature Festival as the crowds keep increasing to meet their favourite authors and artists.
The highlights for DSC Jaipur Literature Festival 2010 – day 4 were –
The Art of the Anti- thriller: Vikram Chandra with Shoma Chaudhury
Best-selling novelist Vikram Chandra discussed [...]
Jaipur, 23rd January 2010 – The fifth DSC Jaipur Literature saw the crowds swarming from the around the globe for the upcoming weekend. literature enthusiasts were seen mingling with their Favourite authors. Some of the renowned personalities spotted today were Javed Akhtar, Chetan Bhagat, Shabana Azmi, Girish Karnad.
The highlights for DSC Jaipur Literature Festival [...]
Jaipur, 22nd January 2010- The 2nd day of the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival hosted Asia’s leading literary event, which attracts thousands of authors, publishers and book lovers each year from around the globe.
The highlights for DSC Jaipur Literature Festival 2010 were:-
An Unlikely Hero:
Nandita Puri and Om Puri, moderated by Namita Bhandare
The first session on [...]
The fifth DSC Jaipur Literature Festival was inaugurated in grand style today in the magnificent Diggi Palace. The Durbar Hall was packed with dignitaries and enthusiastic literature lovers who arrived to a fanfare of drumming and singing by Rajasthani musicians. The DSC Jaipur Literature Festival, which is free and accessible to all, has fast garnered [...]
The puffy saffron tents overflow with literati — and the scent of manure wafting from nearby stables. Honking cars drown out the shaky sound systems amplifying panel discussions. Immortals of the pen and Bollywood idols alike jostle in long lines for meals of soupy dal and curried potatoes.
Welcome to the Jaipur Literary Festival.
Why would Nobel [...]
One of the consequences of being an author is that one gets rather a lot of invitations . Some of these are eminently resistible, but then there are those invitations that cannot be turned down. So when a summons to Jaipur was received, it had to be obeyed on two grounds. Firstly, it was Jaipur; [...]
moderated by Tarun Tejpal.
Speakers: John Kampfner, Anne Applebaum, Meghnad Desai, Steve Coll, Niall Ferguson
Journalist Tarun Tejpal started with a brief summary of two major stories his magazine, Tehelka, covered in this context: one was a report on jailed Maoist Dr Binayak Sen, and the other, The Rape Testimonies, focused on foreign women travellers who were raped by policemen in Maoist-infested [...]
At this year’s Jaipur Literature Festival, as India commemorates 60 years of being a Republic on 26 January 2010, the focus is on Dalit writing. The panel discussion on Outcaste: The Search for Public Conscience featured S. Anand, publisher of Navayana which focuses on dalit literature, P. Sivakami, novelist and political activist from Chennai; Omprakash [...]
by- Roberto Calasso & Devdutt Pattanaik, in conversation with Ananya Vajpeyi: Presented by the Helen Hamlyn Trust
In one of the first discussions in the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival, the two guests were prominent in their separate ideas about the manifestation of Gods in literature and in contemporary culture as a whole. However, they rarely engaged [...]
by Esther Freud, Ali Seth, Jaspreet Singh and introduced by Sadia Shepherd
Three authors with different cultural backgrounds and childhood memories led a contemplative discussion about how childhood stories have influenced their writings. Sadia Shepherd introduced the morning event by stating that they would explore how ‘the stories you grow up with as children shape us [...]
A comprehensive and good natured debate regarding the issues facing literary criticism. Prolific critical writer, Amitava Kumar began by enforcing the importance of individualism in criticism, stating his admiration for writing which “functions as something of a personal essay.” Drawing focus to contemporary Indian criticism, Amit Chaudhuri stated, “sometimes it seems to me in [...]
Facilities:
During your stay with us as a delegate we will provide you the following.
1. Lunch and dinner at the festival hub (Diggi Palace).
2. Invitations to all official receptions and dinners hosted during the festival. (Excluding the Writers’ Ball on 25 January).
3. Local transportation to and from the festival venue and the hotel, if you have asked for [...]
The Garden of Un-Earthly Delights
An installation of new works by artist Suhasini Kejriwal
10th – 25th January 2009
11.00 am – 4.30 pm, daily
Venue: The Anokhi Museum,
Chanwar Palkiwalon ki Haveli,
Kheri Gate, Amber, Jaipur
Curator: Dr.Alka Pande
Dr. Alka Pande and the Jaipur Virasat Foundation proudly present an installation of new works by artist Suhasini Kejriwal, who transforms the historic [...]
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The Tehelka Foundation presents
HANDS ON HABITAT – Empowering Youth to Claim their Natural Heritage
HANDS ON HABITAT is a conservation programme of the Foundation that empowers young people to conserve and protect their natural resources. The three-day workshop by Puneeta Roy, at Jaipur is designed to start a dialogue with young people about the sustainability of [...]
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21 January 2009 Day 1
22 January 2009 Day 2
23 Jaunary 2009 Day 3
24 January 2009 Day 4
25 January 2009 Day 5
DSC Jaipur Literature Festival 2008 brought together world-class writers and artists from across continents, cultures, forms and genres including: Ian McEwan, Christopher Hampton, Donna Tartt, Dev Anand, Aparna Sen, Manil Suri, Indra Sinha, Uday Prakash, Nayantara Sahgal, Kunal Basu, Namita Devidayal, young poets Jeet Thayil, Tishani Doshi, Sampurna Chattarji and graphic novelist Sarnath Banerjee, Robin [...]
Main Sponsors
Associate Sponsors
Supporting Sponsors
Rothschild
Foundation
G C GIBSON CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT
The Williams Charitable Trust
(The Stuart & Hillary
Williams Foundation)
Authors
Performances
Exhibitions
21st January 2009: Day 1
22nd January 2009: Day 2
23rd January 2009: Day 3
24th January 2009: Day 4
25th January 2009: Day 5
Moderators
Workshop
Jaipur, Sunday: All good things come to an end. The 5th and the last day of DSC Jaipur Literature Festival started with the same enthusiasm on a bright Sunday morning. Some of the interesting sessions aptly fitted the conclusion of the festival.
THOSE DAYS: Sunil Gangopadhyay & Aruna Chakravarti
Renowned Bengali novelist Sunil Gangopadhyay and award-winning writer, [...]
Jaipur, Saturday – The fourth day of DSC Jaipur Literature Festival, Asia’s leading literary event, started with great enthusiasm. Authors, publishers and book lovers were seen attending some interesting sessions.
IN CONVERSATION: Pico Iyer with William Dalrymple
Festival Director William Dalrymple described Pico Iyer as ‘Thomas Merton on a frequent flyer pass’ to the audience gathered at the fourth [...]
Jaipur, Friday The 3rd day of the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival Asia’s leading literary event attracting authors, publishers and book lovers from across the globe, witnessed some riveting sessions.
IN CONVERSATION: Chetan Bhagat with Namita Gokhale and Jai Arjun Singh
The third day opened with novelist Chetan Bhagat, in an intimate and frank discussion with the festival director Namita Gokhale [...]
Mahesh Vinayakram hails from one of the most rhythmically talented families in India, his brother being the renowned kanjira player Selva Ganesh, and his father is the grammy nominated Vikku Vinayakram.
The Jaipur Literature Festival has emerged as an informal space for publishers, agents and others connected with the book industry to meet on a common platform and discuss their experiences and issues that concern them. For this year’s publishing session, we seek a focus on the rise of independent publishers alongside the expansion of multinational [...]
Ustad Nile Khan comes from a family of traditional musicians of the erstwhile state of Patiala in Punjab. He learned music from his grandfather, Ustad Idu Shah, and father , Ustad Mohammad Siddique. Nile Khan is known for his soulful singing of the Punjabi Sufi music. He is a music teacher in the Government School [...]
James Asher is a worldbeat artist who has enjoyed extensive popularity with his albums in India, especially those that contain Indian elements and content. It began in 1998, after James was swept away by the magic of Rajasthan. Inviting 22 musicians mostly Indian but resident in the UK, the year was spent creating the critically [...]
The panel organized by the Osian’s Center for Archiving, Research & Development (CARD) will bring together specialists from different walks of the arts and culture to discuss the role of the archive as a pivotal source of inspiration for the future of artistic and cultural creativity.
A dream compelled Peter Pannke to travel to the Mali. Toumani Diabate, master of the 21-string Kora-harp, told him the innermost truth about his country. Dreamtalker introduces the master musician, nominated for the Grammy Award 2009, who is giving his first Indian concert in Jaipur, and discusses the role of Griots.
Established in 2000 by Neville Tuli, Osian’s is India’s foremost arts and cultural institution that has been focused on building India’s artistic, cultural and educational infrastructure, fusing artistic, & creative excellence with financial self-sufficiency.
The Centre for Archiving, Research and Development (CARD) lies at the heart of Osian’s unique infrastructure building programme. Since its inception, CARD [...]
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 family drama directed by Danny Boyle and written by Simon Beaufoy is based on the novel Q &A by Vikas Swarup. It is the story of how an impoverished Indian teen, Jamal, becomes a winner on the Hindi version of “Who Wants to be A Millionaire?”. The local police find it [...]
Matthew Hollis was born in Norwich in 1971. Ground Water (Bloodaxe 2004), his first full-length collection, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, the Guardian First Book Award and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. He is co-editor of 101 Poems Against War (Faber, 2003) and Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry [...]
Meg Bateman was born in Edinburgh in Scotland in 1959. She teaches at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the Gaelic-medium campus of the University of the Highlands and Islands in the Isle of Skye. She has brought out three collections of poetry and has co-edited and translated three anthologies of Gaelic medieval, 17th-century and religious verse. Her [...]
Rajiv Chandrasekaran is the National Editor of The Washington Post and the author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a best-selling account of the troubled American effort to reconstruct Iraq. The book won the Overseas Press Club book award, the Ron Ridenhour Prize and Britain’s Samuel Johnson Prize. It was named one of the [...]