As the year slithers in with all its grandeur and the scent of fresh beginnings, it welcomes you to start the year taking a trip to the unmissable, evident and the unparalleled Jaipur Literature Festival. JLF is a five-day-long festival, wherein renowned writers and authors come together under one roof. It is held at the Diggi Palace every year and works as a platform where people come together to share their experiences, work, and other topics of interest.
Today was the second day and it started with a piece of beautiful morning music and a saga of eminent writers and authors from all across the world. Before I start to take you through a journey of today’s event and what all was not to be missed, have a look at the basic details about the Jaipur Literature Festival.
The venue of Jaipur Literature Festival: Diggi House, Shivaji Marg, Sawai Ram Singh Rd, C Scheme, Jaipur
Date of JLF: 23-27 Jan 2020
Timings of Jaipur Literature Festival: 6 AM – 9 PM (approx)
Entry fee of JLF: Nil except for the delegates, and media personals
Duration of JLF: 3-4 days
Gift yourself an inimitable experience with the Jaipur Literature Festival. The highlights for today’s festival under JaipurBookMark are mentioned below:
THE ANATOMY OF A LITERARY PRIZE
Keynote Address: India at Frankfurter Buchmesse
Claudia Kaiser
Aanchal Malhotra, Elaine Canning, Hemali Sodhi, Mita Kapur and Sunny Singh, moderated by Arunava Sinha
WHY PUBLISHING POETRY IS IMPORTANT
Ashok Vajpeyi, Chris Agee, Madhav Kaushik, Mindy Gill and Ranjit Hoskote, moderated by Naveen Kishore
TRANSLATION AS INTIMACY
Arunava Sinha and Sunandini Banerjee in conversation with Anjum Katyal
A TEXTBOOK CASE FOR DIVERSITY
Atiya Zaidi, Niko Pfund, Sunny Singh and Urvashi Butalia, moderated by Manisha Chaudhry
COVERING CREATIVITY
Aanchal Malhotra, Arsen Kashkashian, Devangana Dash and Kunal Basu, moderated by Shobhaa De
The Literature Festival sessions that were the best today:
JAIPUR JOURNALS: THE WRITING LIFE
Namita Gokhale and Shashi Tharoor in conversation with Shunali Khullar Shroff
CELESTIAL BODIES
Jokha Alharthi and Zikrur Rahman in conversation with Mohamed Zarrouk
WOMEN AND WORK
Anuradha Bhagwati, Asma Khan, Amita Nigam Sahaya and Namita Waikar in conversation with Namita Bhandare
SHASHI ON SHASHI
Shashi Tharoor in conversation with Michael Dwyer
WORD, IMAGE, SOUND
Shobhaa De and Amit Khanna in conversation with Kaveree Bamzai
SHANI: THE POWER OF SATURN
Robert Svoboda and Abhishek Singh in conversation with Anubhav Nath
IKIGAI: THE JAPANESE SECRET TO A LONG AND HAPPY LIFE
Francesc Miralles in conversation with Nilanjana S. Roy
JLF aims to bring writers, thinkers, literary experts, humanists, politicians, entrepreneurs, sportsmen, and the greatest animators in the world on a single platform. The platform permits them to interchange ideas and brainstorms over them, learn from masters and participate in sober debates and dialogues. Additionally, it is an opportunity for budding writers to learn and take back wisdom.
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