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Jaipur Literature Festival 2021: S Hareesh, Shashi Tharoor and Priyanka Chopra's sessions among a sedate Day 1's highlights
Fp Staff •Day 1 — The Beginning
Jaipur Literature Festival 2021: Literary extravaganza opens on virtual stage for its 14th edition
Fp Staff •"Our effort has really been how to capture the essence of this incredible festival with colours, with gaiety, with music, with great food, with networking."
Mountain Echoes 2019: On Day 3, conversations on magic, artificial intelligence and poetry take centrestage
Neerjad •The third and final day of Mountain Echoes 2019 was composed of interconnected conversations about artificial intelligence, the rich history of objects, traditions of Indian magic, and poetry about love.
Mountain Echoes 2019: On Day 2, spotlight on stories of migration, community, and faith
Neerjad •As an Indian journalist attending a Bhutanese literature festival, I’d assumed that the conversations would centre on our part of the world, and the similarities and differences both countries share. But I was pleasantly surprised to find not one, but two stories of migration in Singapore and Hong Kong, on Day 2 of the Mountain Echoes literature festival. Though they were rooted in these milieus, the lessons they offered were universal.
Zee Jaipur Literature Festival 2019: With focus on younger audience, science fiction, #MeToo to take center stage at the annual fest
Aishwaryasahasrabudhe •Co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival Namita Gokhale said of the event's special focus on science that our world is changing very fast, it impacts our lives much more and today’s young audiences want to understand the future, they need empirical thinking
Jaipur Literature Festival 2019: Man Booker winner Ben Okri, Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan among author line-up
Ians •Co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival, Namita Gokhale emphasized that the 2019 edition will bring to fore the importance of science, genetics, astronomy and astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and what the future holds for the planet
Zee Jaipur Literature Festival 2018 comes to a close with a rousing debate on #MeToo
Harsh •The debate capped off the 11th edition of the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival | #FirstCulture
On Day 3 of Jaipur Literature Festival 2018, advice on travel, screenwriting and Nordic way of life
Harsh •From Pico Iyer's advice on staying away from bucket lists when travelling to Mira Nair talking about adapting Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake for the big screen, here's a look at Day 3's highlights at the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival | #FirstCulture
On Day 2 of Jaipur Literature Festival 2018, big ideas jostle for space with crowds
Harsh •You could tell from the moment you took the slim lane leading up to the Diggi Palace Hotel, host to the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival this year, that the venue’s crowd capacities were set to be tested in a few hours | #FirstCulture
Zee Jaipur Literature Festival 2018: Here's a guide to the best events on Day 4
Harsh •From sessions ranging from the art of the novel to the search for Bin Laden to how science got women wrong, here is a guide to day four of the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival | #FirstCulture