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In the pink of verbosity
The yellow brick road leads to the Pink City for truckloads of bibliophiles from the city who are busy cramming their bags with books, brochures and expectations, as they get set to head to the Jaipur Literature Festival. Click here to read more
BJP to oppose Pak writers at Jaipur Literature Festival
A day after a few Muslim bodies warned the organizers of Jaipur Literature Festival against inviting four authors who read out from a book of Salman Rushdie last year, the BJP has warned against the participation of Pakistan-based writers at the festival. Click here to read more
'We will not be bullied by fringe elements': Jaipur Lit Fest organisers
Fringe organisations have demanded that authors who read excerpts from Booker winner Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses at last year's fest be barred from attending this year's edition. Click here to read more
Jaipur Lit Fest: Dalai Lama to discuss on Buddha's view of life
The Tibetan spiritual leader will grace the festival this year and will share with the attendees his pearls of wisdom and philosophy. Click here to read more
It hasn't even started and the war drums are out: Islamic groups protest against authors at Jaipur lit fest
The decision of the four authors to read out some excerpts from Salman Rushdie's controversial Satanic Verses at the Jaipur Literature Festival (Lit Fest) last year continues to haunt some Muslim groups and activists as they have warned against their presence in the five day event beginning January 24 this year. Click here to read more
Bound by books
Book and travel enthusiasts mark your dates, for the sixth edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) is scheduled to take place from January 24-28 at Diggi Palace, Jaipur. Click here to read more
Celebrated Pakistani authors to attend Jaipur literature festival
Several Pakistani authors will be coming to India later this month to participate in the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) amid an atmosphere of hostility and cultural embargo, both here and in Pakistan. Click here to read more
Muslim groups warn Jaipur Literature Festival against 4 authors
Authors - Jeet Thayil, Ruchir Joshi, Amitva Kumar and Hari Kunzru - created a furor last year when they read out passages from the controversial book in public to express their support to Rushdie, whose visit to JLF-2012 had been opposed by the Muslim hardliners. Click here to read more
Rushdie, India-Pakistan tensions echo in Jaipur
There is no threat to the Jaipur Literature Festival, organisers said Monday as a controversy arose over author Salman Rushdie and the participation of Pakistani authors at what is known as the ‘maha Kumbh’ of literature in Asia. Click here to read more
Dalai Lama at DSC Jaipur lit fest
The Buddha will smile on the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival this year when the 14th Dalai Lama attends the literary carnival on the eve of the discussion,"The Buddha in Literature' Jan 25. The festival, which is devoting a special segment to Buddhism for the first time, will take a look at the impact of the faith on lifestyles, literature, arts and culture. Click here to read more
Call for seven authors to be banned from Jaipur Literary Festival
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a right-wing pro-Hindu NGO linked to the BJP political party, have joined their party in wanting seven Pakistani authors banned from attending the Jaipur Literature Fest after recent troubles in the Line of Control where one Pakistani soldier and two Indian soldiers died. Click here to read more
Ban Salman Rushdie at Jaipur Literature Festival, say Muslim groups, but Sanjay Roy says no 'hijacking' event
Ahead of the Jaipur Literature Festival, Muslim groups today warned organisers against inviting authors who hurt religious sentiments of the community, including the four who had read out passages from Salman Rushdie's banned Satanic Verses at the event last year. Click here to read more
Pakistani authors to attend Jaipur lit fest
The Hindu The Jaipur Literature Festival this year will host two of Pakistan's most celebrated authors, Jamil Ahmad and Mohammed Hanif (in picture). File photo The event is being held amid an atmosphere of hostility and cultural embargo in both countries. Click here to read more
Things To Do This Month
The Jaipur Literature Festival is the largest literary festival and the most prestigious celebration of national and international literature in the country. Encompassing a range of readings, talks, debates, performances, workshops and activities, it will be held between January 24 to 28 in Jaipur. Click here to read more
A friendly cricket match at upcoming Jaipur Literature festival
Jaipur Literature festival scheduled to be held in the Pink City from January 24-28, will also include a a friendly cricket match between leading authors coming to the festival and the Royals XI, comprising of few players, team management and esteemed personalities. Click here to read more
Royals face ‘Authors’ at Jaipur Lit Fest
IPL team Rajasthan Royals will play a Friendly cricket match against a team consisting of leading authors attending the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival starting on January 24.
The match, to be played on January 23, will see the likes of India pacer S. Sreesanth, Ashok Menaria, Ajit Chandela, Dishant Yagnik, Raghu Iyer and Shashi Tharoor forming the Royals XI team. Click here to read more
DSC Jaipur Literature Festival
Regarded as the Kumbh Mela of Indian and international writing, Jaipur Literature Festival has been drawing in writers and readers from across India and around the world. Click here to read more
Authors to bowl doosra at Litfest
To add to the fervour, a friendly cricket match is being organised between the visiting authors and Royals XI, comprising few players, team management and other famous personalities.
The ‘Authors XI’ versus ‘Royals XI’ match will be held in Jaipur, the home of Rajasthan Royals, on January 23, said the organisers. Click here to read more
Cricket to kick-start Jaipur Literature Festival
Cricket, the gentleman's game central to many literary works, is now kick starting the Jaipur Literature Festival.
The 6th edition of the annual literature extravaganza is poised to begin with a friendly cricket match between authors and cricketers on January 23, a day before the five-day DSC Jaipur Literature Festival is scheduled to commence in Jaipur. Click here to read more
DSC JLF 2013 to focus on 'serious literature'
The pink city has come to be associated with one more thing - DSC Jaipur Literature Festival, the five-day annual literary carnival that brings the best of Indian and International authors, poets, journalists, and book lovers, together under one roof. Click here to read more
DSC Jaipur Literature Festival to connect literature and cricket
A friendly cricket match between the Authors-XI and the Royals-XI on the eve of the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival here will facilitate connection between literature and cricket and give unusual experience to the participant writers/laureates in the five-day mega event that commenses at the Diggi Palace here from January 24. Click here to read more
Surprising how Jaipur beat Kolkata
Jaipur holds a spectacular literary show by presenting the best minds in national and international world of books and blends them with the right dose of music and seminars in its four-day bonanza. Click here to read more
- William Dalrymple
Jaipur all set for literary festival
The international list of authors participating in the sixth annual DSC Jaipur Literature Festival this year from January 24 to 28 is the most cerebral, intellectually-stimulating and high-power ever fielded, according to organisers. Click here to read more
'Award-winning foreign writers at Jaipur lit fest'
A star-studded lineup of international writers, including Commonwealth Prize winner Aminatta Forna from Sierra Leone, Booker Prize winnerHoward Jacobson and Orange Prize winners Linda Grant and Madeline Miller, will lend glamour to the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival Feb 24-28. Click here to read more
6th Jaipur Literature Festival: A truly global representation
In barely two weeks to go the country is going to witness the sixth annual DSC Jaipur Literature Festival. Scheduled from 24th to 28th January, 2013, at Diggi Palace in Jaipur, the biggest literature fest in India will see the heavyweights of the literary world congregate to celebrate a world of words. Click here to read more
Top award-winning foreign writers at Jaipur lit fest
It is going to be an absolutely extraordinary five days and I only wish it were possible to clone oneself so that one could attend five sessions simultaneously. Click here to read more
- William Dalrymple
Now, cricket match to pep up literature fest
The Jaipur Literature Festival is all set to add more glitz to its decor with an exhibition cricket match being scheduled between a Rajasthan Royals (RR) team named as 'Royals Management Team' and the authors on January 23, a day before the fest begins. Click here to read more
Jaipur Fest doesn't shy away from creating a literary storm: Sharia law, gay and lesbian literature and the 18th century sexual revolution on the agenda
The festival, in its 6th year, has decided to include controversial subjects such as Sharia law, gay and lesbian literature and the 18th century sexual revolution, among others. It is scheduled to be held from January 24 to 28. Click here to read more
Jaipur Lit Fest to focus on women’s issues
Issues that plagued the country last year will feature prominently in the upcoming Jaipur Literature Festival to be held from January 24 to 28. Women-related issues and feminism will hold centerstage while former IPS Kiran Bedi and Pavan Choudhary will launch a book, ‘Uprising 2010 - Indians Against Corruption’, drawing attention to the agitation against corruption in the country. Click here to read more
International authors to enthrall readers at DSC Jaipur Literature Festival
Festival will play host to subjects as diverse as the history of miniature painting and war reporting, Sharia Law and gay and lesbian literature, the Jewish novel, the 18th century sexual revolution, detective fiction and the literature of 9/11. It will focus on new writing from Latin America and Iran; examine the economic prospects of India. We'll look at the mixed legacy of the British Empire, the decline of America and the rise of China. Click here to read more
Womens issues to find a voice at Lit Fest
As solidarity on womens issues continues to surge in the country,it will find a resonance at the Jaipur Literature Festival to be held at Diggi Palace from January 24 to 28. Click here to read more
Women's voices to reverberate at DSC Jaipur Literature Festival 2013
The sixth annual DSC Jaipur Literature Festival has been scheduled from 24th to 28th January, 2013, at Diggi Palace in Jaipur. The five-day festival will encompass a wide range of activities including debates, discussions, readings, music, and workshops for the audiences. Click here to read more
Women's issues to find resonance at JLF
At a time when the nation is debating afresh the sensitivities and travails of women, the issues of the world's better half will find a resonance in the underlying theme of this year's Jaipur Literature Festival. Click here to read more
40 women writers to address feminism, gender at Jaipur lit fest
Women will be a powerful voice at the sixth annual DSC Jaipur Literature Festival Jan 24-28 with iconic writers like Diana Eck, leading Arab novelist Ahdaf Soueif, Aminatta Forna, Lakshmi Holmstrom, Nasreen Munni Kabir and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak addressing issues related to women in literature and the intellectual space. Click here to read more
Prabha Khaitan’s autobiography at JLF
The English translation of late feminist writer and businesswoman Dr Prabha Khaitan’s autobiography - A Life Apart – would be released at the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) 2013. Click here to read more
Jaipur Literature Festival to boost Rajasthan Tourism
With 50,000 visitors’ last year, the Jaipur Literature Festival is undoubtedly the largest literary festival in Asia-Pacific. Entering in its sixth year, the Jaipur Literature Festival looks far more promising to set the tourism industry in India and Rajasthan soar high. The sixth edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival will be held from January 24 – 28, 2013. Click here to read more
His world of words
That William Dalrymple enjoys storytelling would be stating the obvious but the author really
thrives in going into storyteller mode when he is presented with a hall packed with a rapt audience ready to listen to him reading excerpts from his latest book, Return of a King —The battle for Afghanistan. Click here to read more
A Musical Extravaganza Awaits You At The Jaipur Literature Festival
After the literary sessions in the morning, the festival will turn into a musical night during the evenings. It is the sixth installment of the Jaipur Literature Festival and drawing in readers & writers from India and western countries such as America, Africa, Europe and the South Asia. Click here to read more
Making merry with literature across the country
The creative and dynamic programming of Indian languages will make the Jaipur Literature Festival more democratic in one sense, more Indian in a deeper sense, and make these languages familiar to the wider audience," says poet Ashok Vajpeyi, who is associated with the festival. Click here to read more
UWA Publishing book shortlisted for major international literary prize
The DSC Prize is the leading international prize for South Asian literature that is awarded for the best work of fiction based on South Asia, published in English, including translations into English, and is not dependent on authors' ethnicity. The winner will be announced at the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival in January 2013. Click here to read more
“The downfall of regional cinema has given rise to literature festivals”
Gulzar also spoke about the literature festival and their rise in the recent times. The Jaipur literature festival conducted annually has been a grand success and is now perhaps the most attended and recognized festival across Asia! Click here to read more
- Gulzar
Myth and Fiction at The Jaipur Literature Festival
In the years that followed the publication of Salman Rushdie’s novel, “The Satanic Verses,” a tragic game of Chinese whispers took place among those Indian Muslims who decided to take action against the novel. Few of them had ever read it: the book was banned in India before more than a handful of copies had arrived at customs, so of the many of pages that were written about the book in Rushdie’s home country, almost all were based on hearsay. Click here to read more
- William Dalrymple
Day 3 at the Jaipur Literature Festival
After the madness of the day, this was time for some calm. Quite surprisingly, the evening began with a poetry reading by young poetess Tishani Doshi. But this aberration was more than welcomed by the audience, as they sat, mesmerized by Tishani's recitation, some inspired by Neruda, some anti-love, from her collection, "Everything Begins Elsewhere". Click here to read more
- Upasana Mantri and Kashika Saxena
A Mother’s Memoir
US-based author Amy Chua clears the air on her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Even though the West did not get the satire 49-year-old author Amy Chua intended to share with her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, there were many takers for the strict, “Asian” style of parenting she advocates, at the Jaipur Literature Festival. Many parents turned up for a rather therapeutic session on Saturday for Chua’s discussion on “Tiger Mothers”. Click here to read more
- Pallavi Pundir
Gulzar, Akhtar regale audience at Jaipur fest
Getting people out of work on a Monday morning to listen to poetry is not a hard task if you are Javed Akhtar or Gulzar. So the turnout at the 10 am session titled Kahani Kisko Kehte Hai? - featuring Bollywood's most wanted poet-lyricists with their younger counterpart, adman Prasoon Joshi, and filmmaker Vishal Bharadwaj - was no big surprise. Click here to read more
- Georgina Maddox
James Shapiro keen on Shakespearean theatre in India
James Shapiro, the author of “1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare” and “Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare”, wants to tour India and the rest of the world to see how the bard has been given life in fresh ways by different cultures. Click here to read more
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