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In her book Turmeric Nation, Shylashri Shankar investigates how food in India interlaces with identities

The book explores food through popularly known metrics of history, religion, tradition, pop culture and habits.

Jaipur Literature Festival 2021: Mehr Farooqi discusses her new biography of Ghalib, and the challenges of translation

The author, among other things, talked about the important journey Ghalib undertook to Kolkata, and his discovery of the printing process and the bookshops of the city.

Jaipur Literature Festival 2021: Kevin Barry on his books, and what makes Ireland a nation of authors

To the coast of Ireland.

Jaipur Literature Festival 2021: In this year's Travel Session, an examination of what writing in the domain might accomplish

All travelled up.

Jaipur Literature Festival 2021: Alex Ross on his new book, and the chequered life and legacy of Richard Wagner

Wagner still remains a figure of substantial influence in films, literature, painting and music.

Jaipur Literature Festival 2021: From Avni Doshi to Philip Pullman, our picks of sessions to attend from Day 6-10

Here is a list curated by Firstpost of online talks and discussion to tune into and participate in at the virtual JLF 2021.

Jaipur Literature Festival 2021: Simon Winchester on his new book, and the bloody history of land ownership

The book, which explores the question if land can ever truly be ‘owned’, came about when Winchester himself began to dig into the history of a piece of land he bought after moving to the US.

NPF withdraws from legislators forum, says Naga peace talks hampered due to govt's 'half-hearted approach'

The Opposition party added that the Joint Legislators Forum (JLF) has become a mere forum without any tangible roadmap to resolve the Naga political issue

Online initiative by organisers of Jaipur Literature Festival and HarperCollins India to explore literature produced in Indian languages

Each of the eight episodes in the first season of Words are Bridges will start off with readings from works of Indian literature followed by a discussion between the author and translator.

Destroying patriarchal norms is the kind of political activism I want to do in my books: KR Meera

In this interview with Firstpost, KR Meera discusses how she visualises chapters, the influence of her journalistic background on her work, breaking patriarchal norms, and how writing can require immense physical stamina too.