Literature Festivals
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Assam’s Kokrajhar Literary Festival shows how literary festivals can be truly inclusive
A melting pot of culture and languages that represents India’s amazing diversity.
Rajat Chaudhuri
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Ten conversations from the Jaipur Literature Festival 2022 worth watching (again)
Writers from around the world joined the festival online.
Scroll Staff
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The Jaipur Literature Festival will be back as a physical event in 2022, but not in Diggi Palace
An interview with Teamwork’s Sanjoy Roy, who organises the global chain of JLF events.
Scroll Staff
Trending
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Why are Sikhs abroad more pro-Khalistan than community members living in India?
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The dark side of wind energy along Gujarat’s coast
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Watch: The trailer of Mani Ratnam’s ‘Ponniyin Selvan’ part 2 is out
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Kalakshetra abuse controversy should force a rethink of power hierarchies in ‘classical’ dance world
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Scotland’s new Muslim leader is another symbol of the extraordinary change in British politics
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After the coup: Will literature in Myanmar and the Irrawaddy Literary Festival be the same again?
Novelist Dipika Mukherjee reflects on the festival she attended in 2019, and on the fate of writing in Myanmar.
Dipika Mukherjee
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Litfests: Sponsors and participants should both know there are always strings attached
Sponsorship of the arts is often a minefield, shows the controversial cancellation of Vijay Prashad and Noam Chomsky’s discussion at Tata Literature Live.
Arundhati Ghosh
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With CAA protests and questions over sponsors, the Jaipur Literature Festival has to make choices
Nuanced debates about corporate money fuelling culture and debate were possible, even credible, once upon a time. Not anymore.
Parvati Sharma
Video
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Watch: Journalist Nishant Shekhar hilariously mimics everyday conversations in Indian newsroom
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Watch: Fire spreads through hotel in Indore, rescuers evacuate trapped guests with ladders
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Watch: Trapped miners rescued from collapsed gold mine in Congo as onlookers cheer in relief
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Watch: Israeli commando units stage undersea protest against government’s judicial overhaul plans
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Watch: Rescuer scales 65-foot telecom tower in Pune to save bird tangled in kite string
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Times Litfest Mumbai cancelled because ‘seriously floundering economy’ has kept sponsors away
The Hindu Lit for Life has been postponed for similar reasons.
Scroll Staff
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Another edition of the Jaipur Lit Fest ends but ethical concerns about title sponsor remain
Some claim that the prestigious event’s association with the Zee media group lends credibility to a news channel accused of running polarising reportage.
Harsimran Gill
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11 translators from around the world you shouldn’t miss at this year’s Jaipur Literature Festival
Most of them will participate in Jaipur Bookmark, where the focus is on publishing, bookselling and translations.
Mohini Gupta
The Reel
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Watch: The trailer of Mani Ratnam’s ‘Ponniyin Selvan’ part 2 is out
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‘Elemental’ trailer: Fire teams up with water in animated film about elements of nature
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Netflix India’s latest mantra: ‘You can’t be successful globally without being successful locally’
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Start the week with a film: The very violent and very clever ‘Battle Royale’
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Review: ‘Boston Strangler’ looks for the woman in the serial killer story
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Pune’s first LGBT Marathi litfest wants to make regional queer literature accessible
The event on Sunday will include readings and a session on getting published.
Varsha Torgalkar
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Writers’ festivals aren’t an imaginary republic of letters. They are political arenas
The Brisbane Writers Festival has triggered a controversy. Can a festival decide which writers should be allowed to speak and which, not?
Leigh Boucher, The Conversation
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Meet the 17-year-old student behind Bhopal’s two-month-long Agatha Christie Crime Festival
Starting June 3, the festival will celebrate everything to do with the Queen of Crime.
Neha Bhatt
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