New Delhi: The fine art of writing scripts for movies and plays will be in focus next week when one of the world's greatest playwrights Tom Stoppard, of the Oscar-winning 'Shakespeare in Love' fame, comes to India to speak on "adaptation" in plays and films. Stoppard will team up with leading playwrights Girish Karnad, David Hare and Annie Proulx at the Jaipur Literature Festival Jan 23 to address a session,...
05:57 PM, Jan 09, 2012
Wondering about which author sessions to watch at the Jaipur Litfest in January 2012? The festival starts on Friday, January 20 and goes on till Tuesday, January 24. Besides the galaxy of star international writers who will be participating in sessions - and you can always run into them at the caf or on the lawns in between - there will be a host of Indian authors and entertainers too....
12:41 PM, Dec 28, 2011
New Delhi: The longlist for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2012 will be announced on September 14, 2011 in New Delhi. The event is expected to be attended by eminent literary personalities and patrons of the DSC Prize. The jury, comprising Dr Alastair Niven, Dr. Fakrul Alam, Faiza S Khan, Ira Pande (Chair of the jury) and Marie Brenner, has been in deliberation for the past three months...
06:07 PM, Aug 19, 2011
New Delhi: HM Naqvi, the Pakistan-based novelist whose book "Home Boy" won the first DSC South Asian prize for literature, will tour Bangalore, Chennai and Mumbai July 5-7 to promote awareness about contemporary South Asian literature. Naqvi, who will read out from his novels, will also discuss trends in new South Asian literature with Rakesh Khanna, editor of Blaft Publishing and writer Lavanya Sankaran, a statement said Thursday. The DSC...
05:55 PM, Jul 02, 2011
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I have to announce right at the outset, that I've been to the Jaipur Literature Festival so many times, I have to double check whether ...
08:18 PM, Jan 31, 2011
New Delhi: Celebrated writer-columnist Candace Bushnell, known for her iconic society column "Sex and the City" which was serialised into the hit HBO tele-drama, is including a slice of India in her new book. "I have just started writing it. One of the characters, an actress, comes to India and may be she would stay in India. I am observing the sights, sounds, colours and lives of India," Bushnell, who...
03:52 PM, Jan 29, 2011
His book 'The collaborators' is set in Kashmir, author talks about his experiences of growing up in the valley. ...
09:51 PM, Jan 27, 2011
Kapil Sibal takes the centerstage for a different reason all together. Sibal read out poetry from his book 'Kis-Kis Ki Jai Ho' a books of mobile poems written as text messages. ...
09:37 PM, Jan 27, 2011
Jaipur: Five days of fan frenzy, intellectually stimulating sessions, free flowing wine, paparazzi, electric evenings, marathon book signing sessions, cerebral discussions, all came to an end with the closing of the Jaipur Literature Festival. With over 200 authors and innumerable budding writers, the festival at Diggy Palace that ended Tuesday was like a big fat Punjabi wedding where everyone - right from the hotels to the auto-rickshaws - made a...
12:23 PM, Jan 26, 2011
Jaipur: Some 500 bottles of wine, over 800 pints of beer, 500 vodka bottles and more than 500 whiskey bottles! Free booze flowed from every corner at the five-day Jaipur Literature Festival. The three liquor stalls sitting next to each other undoubtedly attracted the largest crowd in the whole of Diggy Palace, the venue of the five-day event. Those behind the counters worked tirelessly to keep people in high spirits....
01:58 PM, Jan 25, 2011
Jaipur: It started with a bang with sexually explosive content being discussed in a matter of fact way, but enter a few teenagers clad in school uniforms at the 'pulp' session of the Jaipur Literature Festival Monday, and the content was "suitably moderated in accordance with the sensibilities of the audience". The session on day four at the informal Baithak Hall saw Pritham Chakravarthy, who has translated the popular Tamil...
01:34 PM, Jan 25, 2011
Jaipur: Nobel Laureate JM Coetzee said the future belonged to the imperial and the big languages of the world. "The stand I adopt is that the language is a tool of communication. The more command one has over a language, the more it becomes your language," Coetzee told a packed audience at the sixth DSC Jaipur Literature Festival. "The future belongs to the big language, the imperial languages," Coetzee said....
01:31 PM, Jan 25, 2011
Jaipur: The tag of an African author comes with baggage as books are perceived to be about politics and "not about people", Nigeria's award-winning writer Chimamanda Adichie said in a sombre moment at the Jaipur Literature Festival Monday. Adichie, 33, otherwise had the audience in splits most of the time with her razor sharp wit, even when she casually dropped in a line about her problems in obtaining an Indian...
06:31 PM, Jan 24, 2011
Jaipur: The film adaptation of Alex von Tunzelmann's book reportedly ran into trouble with the Indian government, over the depiction of the Nehru-Edwina relationship but the author says India's first prime minister and the wife of the last viceroy shared an intellectual sympathy and were undoubtedly in love. The question of the relationship between Jawaharlal Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten managed to draw attention yet again at the Jaipur Literature Festival...
06:16 PM, Jan 24, 2011
CNN-IBN speaks to the winner of DSC Literary Award at Jaipur Literature Festival. ...
03:55 PM, Jan 24, 2011
Jaipur: Agitated by the categorisation often assigned to non-Western writers by the Western world, Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk feels non-English authors do not get better representation globally. The author, who did not seem to be in the best of humour during a discussion at the Jaipur Literature Festival, said that even an event like the one here was not a true representation of different voices in literature because it was...
02:45 PM, Jan 24, 2011
John Maxwell Coetzee or simply, J M Coetzee, doesn't attend public gatherings. Even if it means skipping the ceremony that awarded him the Booker Prize in 1984. So when he did show up, quite naturally, he became the star attraction and probably one of the biggest draws at the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival on Day 3. "Please bear with me for 45 minutes of what will be a hopefully, uninterrupted...
12:58 PM, Jan 24, 2011
Jaipur: Trust Indian fans to go out of their way to exhibit their excitement at meeting someone of significant import. Their love, or better call it obsession, was not to be missed at the sixth Jaipur Literary Festival. From the done-to-death autograph to getting pictures clicked on their mobiles, the fans mobbed even the remotely known authors. Some of the most popular were the star imports like Nobel laureates Orhan...
11:07 AM, Jan 24, 2011
Bold regional writers are drawing lot of takers at the festival across age, region and language. ...
10:13 AM, Jan 23, 2011
Jaipur: A growing concern to preserve vernacular and classical literature and to popularise it through translations is gradually occupying centre-stage at the sixth DSC Jaipur Literature Festival underway here. "The new generation has limited access to classical and vernacular literature because most of us speak English. Ask me to name one writer in Tamil, Punjabi or Hindi, I won't be able to. I would struggle to name one even in...
08:36 PM, Jan 22, 2011
