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Monkey business at the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival 2020: An exceptionally handy guide to the 13th edition
Harsh • 5 years agoThe 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 • 5 years agoPortuguese 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 • 6 years agoLesson 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 • 6 years agoAndre 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 • 6 years agoThe 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 • 6 years agoOn 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 • 6 years agoToday, 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 • 6 years agoAuthor 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 • 6 years agoIn 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 • 6 years agoUS-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.