Jaipur Literature Festival
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Mark Tully – (holding) Fine tribute from William Dalrymple – Our story to be reposted…
BBC journalist – the face of the BBC in India died on January 25 (1935-2026) – we interviewed the titan…
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‘The Girl with The Seven Lives’ – ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ novel writer Vikas Swarup on his latest book… (Instagram Reel) JLF London 2024 wrap
NOVELIST and now retired Indian diplomat Vikas Swarup, the man behind the original story of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ (in ‘Q&A’) tells…
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Angela Saini – ‘The Patriarchs’ ; Anita Rani ‘Baby Does A Runner’; Sanjoy Roy – the greatest literary show on Earth…
Undoing The Patriarchs – “It wasn’t always this way” argues author Angela Saini DESCRIBED in many quarters as a “game…
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JLF London 2023 – Renaissance, renewal, racism – No literature festival quite like it…?
London Authors, ideas, controversies… often but not always with a South Asian twist and now in its 10th edition here……
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Jaipur Literature Festival 2023: Brits with Indian heritage talk history, culture and change…
Often referred to as the greatest literary show on earth, it returned to being a totally in person edition and…
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Sundance Film Festival – ‘Polite Society’, ‘Poacher’; Jaipur Literature Festival – Amish, Evaristo, Shree; and Berlinale – ‘Dahaad’ calling you…
Three major international festivals have South Asian content and South Asian stories… ‘Polite Society’ – Zany British comedy action film…
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JLF London 2022: The Birangonas – Rape as a tactic of terror in Bangladesh war; The Serpent and how he stuck up contact with former C4 TV executive Farrukh Dhondy..
Among the final sessions at this year’s Jaipur Literature Festival in London were sessions on the Bangladesh war of liberation…
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JLF London 2022 – Crime and why we are drawn to it (as readers), celebrated authors discuss their work…
On the final day, the Jaipur Literature Fesival (JLF) brought three quite different writers together to explore an alleged double…
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JLF London 2022: Anita Rani on being ‘The Right Sort of Girl’ and “brown in a white world and white in a brown world”…
There were sessions on Ukraine, writing a memoir (Howard Jacobson) and recipes gleaned from communities close to the Himalayas and…
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JLF London 2022 – Literature festival returns to in-person and sees novelist Monica Ali discuss ethnicity, physicality and sexuality in her novel, ‘Love Marriage’…
Three day weekend festival has started and welcomes old names and new… By Mamie Colfox OFTEN referred to as the…
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