Jaipur: There was Standing room only by the time Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk's session got underway on Day 1 of the Jaipur Literature Festival. And he certainly lived up to all the hype, and was surprisingly even funny. His girlfriend Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai, demure in the background, will be on a panel with him come Saturday. This festival is getting bigger each year. They are expecting 50...
11:15 AM, Jan 22, 2011
Jaipur: World-famous authors lost themselves amidst thousands of fans as Asia's largest literary event sprang colourfully to life on Friday, debunking criticism of the Jaipur Literature Festival's pretentious overtones. In speeches and debates in bright and airy yellow and green tents, authors, academics and book lovers shared jokes and swapped stories, as the pomposity alleged in a leading news magazine dissipated into the spring sunshine. An article in Open magazine...
08:48 AM, Jan 22, 2011
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It's impossible to sum up the Jaipur Literature Festival in a few words -- it's stunning, sun-drenched, sublime and chaotic all at once. You ...
06:54 PM, Jan 21, 2011
Jaipur: His characteristic literary style was born out of a quest to re-discover the roots of a diminishing Ottoman Islamic tradition in a westernising Turkey, but Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk believes one does not have to be rhetorical in wanting to preserve the historical culture of his birthplace. "What is my cultural tradition?" a young Pamuk was struck by this question while in the US where he was enormously impressed...
06:52 PM, Jan 21, 2011
It's the festival time! With the Jaipur Literary Festival kicking off, the excitement is at its peak. Roli authors participating in the Jaipur Literary Festival Alka Pande An independent curator, Dr Alka Pande is also prolific writer on Indology and art history and is the author of several books, with a special interest in Ancient Indian Erotic literature and art. Recipient of the Charles Wallace Award in 1999-2000, Dr Pande...
01:32 PM, Jan 21, 2011
Orhan Pamuk, JM Coetzee, Vikram Seth, Patrick French, Junot Diaz -- the list would please the lover of the written word. These and over 215 writers from India and the world, including seven Booker Prize and five Pulitzer Prize winners will hold centrestage at the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival scheduled between January 21 and 25. The five-day event that will unfold at Diggi Palace, will witness book readings, debates, performances,...
01:27 PM, Jan 17, 2011
New Delhi: India is high on literature. If 2010 saw the Kovalam Literature Festival grow bigger and the Hay Festival make its debut in Kerala, the start of 2011 will see a lavish shows of literary glitz in Jaipur when the city unveils its annual literature festival. Described by columnist Tina Brown of the Daily Beast as one of the biggest literary shows on earth, the sixth edition of the...
06:18 PM, Dec 18, 2010
He is among the prominent visitors at the Jaipur Literature Fest. ...
06:09 PM, Jan 25, 2010
He is among the prominent visitors at the Jaipur Literature Fest. ...
06:09 PM, Jan 25, 2010
Amrita Tripathi presents the highlights of the event. ...
03:43 PM, Jan 25, 2010
The annual Jaipur literature festival has put Rajasthan on the world's literary map. ...
04:33 PM, Jan 22, 2010
CNN-IBN quizzed festival co-directors Namita Gokhale and William Darlymple. ...
12:14 PM, Jan 22, 2010
Bachchan wanted to dispel myths about his "high and mighty" image. ...
01:37 PM, Jan 24, 2009
The Jaipur Literature Festival kicked off on Wednesday. ...
05:04 PM, Jan 22, 2009
Vikram Seth, mother Leila Seth and Vikas Swarup were the highlights of Day 1. ...
01:32 AM, Jan 22, 2009
St Kitts: West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels made a successful return to Tests with a measured half-century against Pakistan in the second Test and said while he was happy to score his 10th Test half-century on a difficult pitch, it was disappointing not to get to three figures. "This was my first innings on my return to Test cricket and I conditioned my mind to play a long innings for ...
03:55 PM, Jan 28, 2008
Mumbai: Out of contention for the play-offs, Rajasthan Royals will go into tomorrow's match against Mumbai Indians with an aim of giving a winning farewell to their skipper Shane Warne, who will be playing his last match, middle-order batsman Ajinkya Rahane said. "It is his last match so our efforts will be to give him a winning farewell," Rahane told reporters here on the eve of the two team's clash ...
12:42 PM, Jan 27, 2008
Kiran Desai says after winning the Booker Prize, she is now sent for one book tour after the other. ...
05:58 PM, Jan 21, 2007
