A huge reception greeted renown lawyer and politician Ram Jethmalani as he addressed a capacity crowd in the final session of this year’s ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival. Shobhaa De introduced the ‘legal legend’ as ‘delightful, incorrigib...
On the fourth day of the eighth ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival, the panel convened to discuss the unique challenges of writing historical fiction, defined as ‘the project of writing about the past.’ The speakers described historical fiction as a...
This was a high-octane discussion about the revolution of gender identity and equity that is shaking the foundations of established patriarchy worldwide. The panel of women, who hail from various spheres of feminine thought, discussed the roots of th...
Legendary Sufi master Sain Zahoor had made the journey from his native Pakistan to grace the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival with his spiritual set for the third night of music at Clarks Amer. Zahoor explained that through his music, he attem...
The works of William Shakespeare epitomize timelessness. This lively session explored the politics, relevance and representation of Shakespeare’s masterpiece Hamlet, written over 400 years ago, in the light of changing contexts and condition...
I took this photograph at Victoria Terminus station in Mumbai, whilst waiting for a train back to Jaipur, where I live. One of the fascinating things about Mumbai is that it is always moving, and I wanted to try to capture this sense of movement a...
Abhimanyu Radhakrishnan introduced Nassim Nicholas Taleb by explaining that he was not technically an economist, but a philosophical essayist, mathematical researcher and author of several popular books including Fooled by Randomness: The Hid...
The story begins, so they say, in 1943 with three naked young men in a sauna in Cairo, mapping out an armed ambush in the droplets on the marble floor. This is not the opening to an exposé of wartime homoerotica, but the initial inspiration for wha...
Crowds packed into the snug interior of the Mahindra Humanites Durbar Hall for a somber final session today at the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival. Each inquisitive visitor was hoping to hear new insights from Javier Moro, author of Five Past Mi...
A surprise session on cartoons, freedom of expression, and ‘The Fundamental Right to Offend’ was conducted over tea at the British Airways Baithak. Referencing the recent atrocities in Paris against the cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo, CP Suren...
