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Monkey business at the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival 2020: An exceptionally handy guide to the 13th edition
Harsh •The 13th edition of the JLF to kick off on 23 January, featuring over 200 sessions spread across five days.
Zee Jaipur Literature Festival 2020: Howard Jacobson, Katherine Eban to hold forth on Day 2
Fp Staff •Portuguese politician and author Bruno Maçães and playwright and novelist Damian Barr will be among the speakers on Day 2 of the Jaipur Literature Festival
48 life-changing lessons from the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival 2019; or, the One Listicle to Rule Them All
Harsh •Lesson No. 2: At the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival, free water and career advice are always just around the corner. Both served matter-of-factly by strangers.
Zee Jaipur Literature Festival 2019: Adaptations, power differentials in gender dominate conversations on Day 4
Harsh •Andre Aciman, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Irvine Welsh and Yann Martel discussed adaptations of their works on Day 4 of the Jaipur Literature Festival
Zee Jaipur Literature Festival 2019: On Day 3, discussions about need for atypical gay love stories, travel writing
Harsh •The third day of the Jaipur Literature Festival saw a packed audience waiting to listen to Jeffrey Archer, and André Aciman speaking about Call Me By Your Name
Zee Jaipur Literature Festival 2019: On Day 1, surreal worlds, science and climate change dominate conversations
Harsh •On the cold morning of 24 January, the 12th edition of the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival kicked off to the sound of drums.
Perumal Murugan: 'Our society doesn’t have the right attitude towards reading and engaging with a book'
Kusumita Das •Today, with six novels, four collections of short stories and four anthologies of poetry in his folio, Perumal Murugan is not only a crucial voice in Tamil literature, but also a professor of the same.
Call Me By Your Name author André Aciman on writing about love, desire, longing, and loss
Joanna Lobo •Author André Aciman on writing a love story, rejecting labels and turning a fashion story into a treatise on longing
Yann Martel on his book The High Mountains of Portugal, and advice for budding writers
Nikita Rana •In a conversation with Firstpost at the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival 2019, Man Booker Prize winning-author Yann Martel spoke about his book The High Mountains of Portugal and his upcoming book based on the Trojan War; his writing process and advice for budding writers.
At the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival, artist Nishant Jain's project SneakyArt captures ordinary yet evocative moments
Joanna Lobo •US-based freelance writer and illustrator Nishant Jain's SneakyArt project showcases the beauty in everyday urban life through ‘sneaky spots’ in public places, from cafés and bars to museums and parks.