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

· Nov 26, 2020 · 08:30 am

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

· Feb 01, 2020 · 07:30 am

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

· Oct 05, 2019 · 07:52 pm

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

· Jan 30, 2019 · 08:30 am

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

· Jan 23, 2019 · 03:30 pm

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

· Nov 23, 2018 · 05:30 pm

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

· Aug 09, 2018 · 05:30 pm

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

· Jun 03, 2018 · 08:30 am

The People’s Lit Fest took on India’s mainstream literature festivals to present voices of dissent

With the opening edition held in Kolkata, the event will be held every year.

Chandrima Pal

· Apr 02, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Six high points of the Jaipur Literature Festival 2018 (and we have videos to prove it)

Writers Manoranjan Byapari and Preti Taneja were truly remarkable. Some of the ill-prepared moderators, not so much.

Jenny Bhatt

· Feb 07, 2018 · 05:30 pm

So, @JLFInsider didn’t have all the insider information, even if they had much of the snark

An undercover ‘outsider’ was watching.

Brown Paper Bag

· Feb 04, 2018 · 05:30 pm

The most engaging voice at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2018? It was @JLFInsider on Twitter

The anonymous handle was both satirical and insightful, hilarious and observant. But we still don’t know who’s behind it.

Harsimran Gill

· Jan 30, 2018 · 05:30 pm