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Jaipur Literature Festival 2021: Literary extravaganza opens on virtual stage for its 14th edition
Fp Staff • 4 years ago"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."
The Friday List: From the storytelling spectacle dastangoi to a tour of ringmaster Gregangelo's home museum, your weekly calendar of virtual events
Fp Staff • 5 years agoEvery Friday, we'll bring you a curated list of online experiences — performances, talks, tours, screenings — to mark on your weekly calendar.
Siddharth Roy Kapur to adapt William Dalrymple's bestselling book The Anarchy into upcoming TV series
• 5 years agoEncompassing a period from 1599 to 1802, The Anarchy traces the rise of The East India Company against the decline and fall of the storied Mughal Empire.
Zee Jaipur Literature Festival 2020: Abhijit Banerjee, Sarah Parcak to discuss economics, archaeology on Day 4
Fp Staff • 5 years agoThe Travel Session promises to be an interesting panel with well-known authors such as Katie Hickman, Howard Jacobson, Elizabeth Gilbert and Hessler, moderated by JLF co-director William Dalrymple
Zee Jaipur Literature Festival 2020: Elizabeth Gilbert, Roger Highfield to discuss fiction, Harry Potter on Day 3
Fp Staff • 5 years agoFor all Potter-heads, the evening session on Day 3 of the Jaipur Literature Festival on The Science of Harry Potter is one to look forward to. This will be a discussion between author Roger Highfield and Keshava Guha.
Zee Jaipur Literature Festival 2020: From Sanskrit to Susan Sontag, bookmark these Day 1 sessions
Fp Staff • 5 years agoAudiences attending the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) can look forward to a plethora of writers, poets and activists who will be conversing on a range of topics from history to politics to artificial intelligence at the five-day literary extravaganza
'A reminder of the high points in Indian art': William Dalrymple on curating Company paintings exhibition in London
Mallik Thatipalli • 5 years agoA new show at the Wallace Collection in London, Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company, curated by historian William Dalrymple showcases the extraordinary oeuvre of Indian artists for the first time ever.
Books of the week: From Viswanathan Anand's autobiography to The Great Nicobar Island, our picks
Aarushi Agrawal • 5 years agoOur weekly roundup of books that should be on your radar.
Jaipur Literature Festival: Abhijit Banerjee, David Wallace-Wells among speakers; 2020 edition to focus on climate change
Aarushi Agrawal • 5 years agoWith a focus on the importance of the arts, inclusivity, and the climate emergency, Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple presented the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) 2020 Mumbai preview at the Royal Opera House.
Kerala Literature Festival 2020: Shashi Tharoor, Benyamin among speakers at fifth edition
Bindu Gopal Rao • 5 years agoThe theme of the fifth edition of the Kerala Literature Festival is the environment and climate change. Apart from participants hailing from China, Slovenia, Egypt and South Africa, the festival also boasts of the addition of new programme formats: debates, straight talks, book discussions and readers' sessions