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About
JLF AT
SOUTHBANK
The vibrant energies of the famed Jaipur
Literature Festival travel to Southbank Centre,
London, this May, as a creative caravan of
writers and thinkers, poets and balladeers.
Showcasing South Asia’s unique multilingual
literary heritage, and juxtaposing oral and
performative arts, books and ideas, dialogue
and debate, Bollywood and politics, this
magical mystery tour is an intense two-day
highlight of what has been declared: ‘the
greatest literary show on earth’. Jaipur Literature
Festival Directors, Namita Gokhale and William
Dalrymple bring together a weekend of talks,
music and readings.
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10:30am - 6pm
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Day Pass: £20
Weekend Pass: £35
Registration opens 10am onwards
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Directors
Note
Namita
GOKHALE
The story of the Jaipur Literature Festival has
many dimensions of magic in it. An annual
event which has become a literary pilgrimage,
it has transformed the way South Asian writing
views itself and its place in the world. The
festival believes in the human imagination,
beyond borders and boundaries, nations and
ideologies.
South Asian literature, in its many voices,
languages, and avatars, retains an underlying
warp and woof of cultural connectivity.
Linguistic histories, colonial experiences, or
the resistance to them, have fermented and
matured the writing of all these literatures.
As the spreading banyan tree of our festival
finds root and sustenance at the Southbank
Centre for the second year, we bring together
sessions that invoke the special ‘spirit of
Jaipur’, which is celebratory and interrogative,
spontaneous yet rigorous. From Gandhi to
Modi, feminism to South Asian humour,
crime writing to matters of faith, partition to
revolutions of rising aspirations, Jaipur by the
Thames takes you on a unique journey of the
mind and spirit.
William
DALRYMPLE
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Jaipur Literature Festival is a unique celebration
of writing that has grown into something
bigger and more wonderful to anything we
could ever have hoped when we first conceived
this festival a decade ago. From only 14 guests
turning up in 2005, most of whom were tourists
who took the wrong turn, in 2006 we had a big
enough crowd nearly to fill the Diggi Durbar
Hall. About four hundred people came in
2007. This year, we had more than a quarter
of a million footfalls, and the success of Jaipur
has inspired a whole galaxy of nearly sixty
other literary festivals, not only in India but in
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal
and now Burma. We are as surprised as we are
proud of this.
All events are completely free; there are no
reserved spaces for grandees; our authors
mingle with the crowds and eat with them
on a first-come, first-served basis. People
also know that when they come here they will
have a lot of fun. As Time Out put it nicely
last year: “It’s settled. The Jaipur Literature
Festival is officially the Woodstock, Live 8 and
Ibiza of world literature, with an ambience that
can best be described as James Joyce meets
Monsoon Wedding.” But the scale, and reach
of the festival is something that still takes us
all aback. When we ask an author to come to
Jaipur, they very rarely say no, and this year
we were proud to present a Nobel Laureate,
as well as a galaxy of Booker, Pulitzer and
Commonwealth nominees. Jaipur has now
become synonymous with the greatest writers
on the planet.
For the second time, we present at the
Southbank a mini taster platter — a sort of
pocket-sized Jaipur-on-Thames. We can’t wait
to show London a little taster of the energy and
colourful literary brilliance which has made
Jaipur the most happening literary festival in
the world.
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Festival
Program
1. Opening Session:
Address by Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee
3. ”A Corner of a
Distant Playing Field”
James Astill, Romesh Gunesekera and Ashis
Ray in conversation with Rajdeep Sardesai
16th May, 11am-12pm
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2. “Gandhi: The Man
and the Mahatma”
Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee, Meghnad Desai,
Faisal Devji and Sam Miller in conversation
with Salil Tripathi
Ashish Nandy famously described cricket as
“an Indian game invented accidentally by the
English”. The passion for cricket both unites
and divides South Asia. A panel of writers and
journalists who have all written on and around
cricket discuss the nuances and vagaries of
the game. Author and journalist James Astill,
author Romesh Gunesekera, Indian foreign
correspondent and author Ashis Ray and writer,
columnist and television anchor Rajdeep
Sardesai in conversation
16th May, 12:15pm-1:15pm
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was destined
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to be the conscience and political catalyst of
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his age. A distinguished panel including his
granddaughter, activist and Vice-Chairperson
of Gandhi Smriti, Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee,
writer and economist Lord Meghnad Desai,
historian Faisal Devji, journalist and writer Sam
Miller and author and columnist Salil Tripathi
discusses the human vulnerability and genius Anita Roy
of the man who became the Mahatma.
Odd Bod, Square Peg,
Sore Thumb
16th May, 12:15pm-1:15pm
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Ever felt like a misfit? Like you’re a bit different?
Do you sometimes wish you were more like
everyone else? Join storyteller and author Anita
Roy for a thought-sparking, brain-teasing
booktour to help figure out the question: why
do we spend so much time trying to fit in when
all the best stories are about the ones who
don’t?
16th May, 12:15pm-1:15pm
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Shakespearewallahs
Suhel Seth, Tim Supple and others in
conversation with Pragya Tiwari
From Kathakali adaptations to Bollywood
melodrama, the bard has found his way to
India. This lively session explores the politics,
representation and relevance of Shakespeare’s
masterpieces, in the light of changing contexts
and situations, in another time and another
continent. Among his multiple talents as writer,
ad-guru and media person, Suhel Seth is also
an actor and theatre person. Theatre director
Tim Supple has interpreted Midsummers
Night’s Dream within an Indian context and
journalist Pragya Tiwari is also a specialist on
matters of Bollywood.
16th May, 1:30pm-2:30pm
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5. “Clueless:
Season of Crime”
Nils Nordberg, Ashwin Sanghi, Alison Joseph
in conversation with Somnath Batabyal
The resurgence of crime writing and detective
fiction around the world is perhaps indicative
of the human search for morals, ethics,
accountability, responsibility and the nature of
mortality. Besides of course, the joy of a wellconstructed whodunit, East or West. Crime
writer and editor Nils Nordberg, journalist and
author Somnath Batabyal, versatile fiction
writer Ashwin Sanghi and crime writer and
radio dramatist Alison Joseph discuss the finer
nuances of the genre.
16th May, 2:30pm-3:30pm
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4. “Revolution of
Rising Aspirations”
6. ReadingsIndian Summer:
Writers Uninterrupted
Anita Raghavan and Lily Wangchuk, Sidin
Vadukut and Karan Billimoria moderated by
Rajdeep Sardesai
Shrabani Basu, Janice Pariat and Romesh
Gunesekera
A “revolution of rising aspiration” sweeps
South Asia, as a population of 2 billion plus
demands more opportunities and greater
choices. National narratives of hope and
entrepreneurship collide with those of greed,
corruption and opportunism. A distinguished
panel which includes writer and journalist Anita
Raghavan, Bhutanese writer and once Prime
Ministerial candidate Lily Wangchuk and writer
and columnist Sidin Vadukut and entrepeneur
Lord Karan Billimoria moderated by writer and
television anchor Rajdeep Sardesai.
16th May, 2:30pm-3:30pm
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In a session of readings and discussions,
Shrabani Basu, Janice Pariat and Romesh
Gunesekera read from their recent books and
discuss their work and the context of their
writings. Shrabani Basu is the author of Victoria
& Abdul, The Story of the Queen’s Closest
Confidant, Spy Princess, The Life of Noor Inayat
Khan, Janice Pariat is the author of Seahorse,
A Novel and Boats on Land and Romesh
Gunesekera is the author of numerous books,
with his latest being Noon Tide Toll.
16th May, 1:30pm-2:30pm
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Book Launch: “Hubris:
Why Economists
Failed to Predict the
Crisis and How to
Avoid the next One” by
Meghnad Desai
Meghnad Desai in conversation with
Anita Raghavan
16th May, 2:30pm-3:30pm
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7. “V.S. Naipaul: The
Writer and the World”
V.S. Naipaul in conversation with Farrukh
Dhondy
It is half a century since Nobel Laureate
Sir VS Naipaul wrote his groundbreaking
masterpiece, ‘A House For Mr Biswas’. In
conversation with Farrukh Dhondy, the ‘clear
eyed prophet’ of our times looks back on his
craft and career and discusses his complex and
demanding body of work.
16th May, 3:45pm-4:45pm
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8. “Divide and Rue:
The Partition of the
Indian Subcontinent”
Dilip Hiro, Navtej Sarna, Andrew Whitehead
moderated by Urvashi Butalia
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The partition of the Indian subcontinent in
1947 has been described as the largest mass
migration in history. The wounds of this
abrupt dismemberment have not healed
with the passage of time, and national and
cultural tensions continue to escalate. A
panel consisting of writer, journalist and
commentator Dilip Hiro, writer and diplomat
Navtej Sarna, editor and historian Andrew
Whitehead in conversation with writer and
feminist publisher Urvashi Butalia relooks this
troubled history.
16th May, 3:45pm-4:45pm
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9. “The Modi Effect”
Lance Price, Anshuman Jain, Swapan
Dasgupta, Rajdeep Sardesai moderated by
John Elliott
A year to the day since Narendra Modi’s
landslide election victory, four journalists who
have met and written about him join with an
international banker to talk about the man and
the extent to which he has (or has not) met a
nations aspirations. Lance Price and Rajdeep
Sardesai have written books about Modi’s
astonishing election victory, columnist Swapan
Dasgupta is an avowed admirer and journalist,
banker Anshuman Jain has experienced his
international ambitions for India, and John
Elliott spotted him as a potential future leader
back in 2002.
16th May, 5pm-6pm
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10. The Gaze: Here’s
Looking at You, India
Meghnad Desai, Sam Miller, Urvashi Butalia,
Adrienne Loftus Parkins, Sadakat Kadri and
Jonathan Shainin moderated by Pragya Tiwari
What are the reference points to understand a
country and culture as complex as India?
A panel examines perspectives and prejudice
in the contemporary representations of this
unfathomable country.
16th May, 5pm-6pm
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11.”Kohinoor: The
Violent History of the
World’s Most Famous
Diamond”
Anita Anand, Navtej Sarna, William Dalrymple
moderated by Shrabani Basu
The Kohinoor is the most famous diamond in
the world and has long been considered the
subject of a deadly curse. On its journey from
Golconda through Delhi, Afghanistan and the
Sikh Empire to London, it has wound its way
through the books of all the writers on this
panel. BBC anchor Anita Anand is the author
of Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary,
writer and diplomat Navtej Sarna is also the
author of The Exile, a novel based on the life
of Raja Ranjit Singh, journalist and historian
Shrabani Basu has written Victoria & Abdul,
The Story of the Queen’s Closest Confidant and
famed historian William Dalrymple has written
extensively on Mughal and colonial India.
17th May, 11am-12pm
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12. “Awaaz Do: Voices
from Urdu, Hindustani
and Hindi”
Francesca Orsini, Qaisra Shahraz, Achala
Sharma in conversation with Divya Mathur
Urdu, Hindustani and Hindi share a vocabulary
and literary heritage across different scripts,
cultures and national boundaries. They
continue to create a body of writing that
is rooted yet universal and reaches out to
audiences in both South Asia and the extended
linguistic diaspora. A panel of readings and
discussions by Professor of Indian literature
Francesca Orsini, author Qaisra Shahraz,
author and playwright Achala Sharma and
poet Divya Mathur.
17th May, 11am-12pm
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Odd Bod, Square Peg,
Sore Thumb
Anita Roy
Ever felt like a misfit? Like you’re a bit different?
Do you sometimes wish you were more like
everyone else? Join storyteller and author Anita
Roy for a thought-sparking, brain-teasing
booktour to help figure out the question: why
do we spend so much time trying to fit in when
all the best stories are about the ones who
don’t?
17th May, 11am-12pm
CLORE BALLROOM AT ROYAL
FESTIVAL HALL
13. “Darjeeling”
Jeff Koehler in conversation with Pragya Tiwari
The story of Darjeeling tea is a story of intrigue
and empire, with the backdrop of the looming
Himalayas and drenching monsoons. Writer
and traveler Jeff Koehler and journalist and
editor Pragya Tiwari discuss the many narratives
and contradictions through the history of this
idyllically beautiful yet troubled region.
17th May, 11am-12pm
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14. “Whose Feminism
Is It Anyway?”
Anita Anand, Lily Wangchuk, Urvashi Butalia,
Suhel Seth, Janice Pariat and Namita Gokhale
in conversation with Salil Tripathi
Even as feminist ideology around the world is
relooking itself, South Asia seeks its own models
of freedom and creative empowerment that
work within its culture and context. A panel
discusses the contradictions, predicaments
and triumphs of local feminism. Anita Anand,
Lily Wangchuk, Urvashi Butalia, Suhel Seth,
Namita Gokhale, Janice Pariat and Salil Tripathi
bring various perspectives to this important
issue.
17th May, 12:15pm-1:15pm
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15. “Delhi Durbar”
Malvika Singh, William Dalrymple and
Somnath Batabyal in conversation with
Swapan Dasgupta
Delhi has been the capital of much of India
since the time of the Mahabharata. Once a
great hub of North Indian culture, it remains
the centre of power, politics and politicking.
Writers, observers and Delhi-wallahs discuss
what makes India’s Imperial City ‘lajawaab’.
A walk through history with publisher and
columnist Malvika Singh, author Somnath
Batabyal, columnist Swapan Dasgupta and
historian William Dalrymple, all of whom have
written extensively about Delhi.
17th May, 12:15pm-1:15pm
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Ambushed! worshop
by Nayanika Mahtani
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17th May, 2:30pm-3:30pm
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16. “The Mahabharata:
India’s Enduring Epic”
Readings by Ashwin Sanghi, Carole Satyamurti
and Namita Gokhale introduced by
Vayu Naidu
The Mahabharata is one of the greatest and
most enduring epics anywhere. It is not an
ethical or prescriptive text but an acute and
pragmatic testament to human understanding.
The session brings alive the complex narratives
of the Mahabharata and its contemporary
relevance through a series of readings by and
on behalf of Carole Satyamurti, Ashwin Sanghi
and Namita Gokhale, introduced by Vayu
Naidu.
17th May, 12:15pm-1:15pm
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17. “Return of a King”
William Dalrymple introduced by Somnath
Batabyal
Historian William Dalrymple on his celebrated
book and how the shadow of history looms
through present day conflicts in Afghanistan.
This account of a watershed conflict, and the
first battle for Afghanistan, looks into the
obvious parallels in the modern world.
17th May, 2:30pm-3:30pm
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Music workshop by
Kutle Khan
17th May, 12:15pm-1:15pm
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FESTIVAL HALL
18. “On Bangladesh: Of 20. “We Are Like That
Wars and Betrayals”
Only: What Makes
South Asians Smile?”
Tahmima Anam, Salil Tripathi and Sadaf Saaz
moderated by Mukulika Banerjee
The Bangladesh War of 1971 disjointed a
nation absurdly partitioned by the British into
territories, more than a thousand miles apart.
Played out against the precarious balance of
power of the Cold War, the Bangladesh War
of Liberation remains a subject of deep and
immediate interest to both historians and
writers of fiction. Tahmima Anam is the author
of The Golden Age and The Good Muslim.
Writer and human rights activist Salil Tripathi
is the author of The Colonel Who Would Not
Repent, poet and female rights activist Sadaf
Saaz has created a series of monologues titled
‘That which cannot be said’. Moderated by
Mukulika Banerjee.
17th May, 2:30pm-3:30pm
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19. “Deconstructing
Bollywood: Beyond the
Cliches”
Shabana Azmi, Farrukh Dhondy, Nasreen
Munni Kabir, Rachel Dwyer moderated by
Sanjoy Roy
The stylized comedy, tragedy and melodrama
of the exuberant Bollywood genre has its
own complex aesthetics and critical subtexts.
Scholars and denizens of Bollywood give us
step-by-step inputs on the Indian film industry.
Distinguished actor Shabana Azmi, producer
and director Nasreen Munni Kabir, writer and
media person Farrukh Dhondy, Professor of
Indian Culture and Cinema Rachel Dwyer, and
cultural activist Sanjoy Roy.
Moni Mohsin, Malvika Singh and Suhel Seth
moderated by Sidin Vadukut
Are South Asians stingy with humour? Do they
move beyond slapstick and lewd innuendo
and are they comfortable with pushing the
boundaries of comedy and laughter? Smile
with us through this funny-bone session.
Writer and satirist Moni Mohsin, the witty tellit-like-it-is Malvika Singh, the irrepressible
Suhel Seth and the seriously skeptical Sidin
Vadukut tell us what makes South Asians smile.
17th May, 3:45pm-4:45pm
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21. DEBATE:“Has the
Westminster Model of
Democracy taken root
in South Asia?”
Suhel Seth, Swapan Dasgupta, Lily Wangchuk,
Sadaf Saaz, Mukulika Banerjee, Michael Hutt,
Salil Tripathi and Zareer Masani
Jaipur Literature Festival traditionally closes
with a hugely participative public debate
where argumentative Indians and enthused
international audiences cheer and boo to
amplify the combat on stage. In its Southbank
edition, the JLF debate examines whether or
not the Westminster model of democracy has
taken root in South Asia. Has the colonial model
been able to evolve into an effective indigenous
format for responsible governments and does
it fit the imperatives of Asian democracy?
17th May, 5pm-6pm
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Adrienne
LOFTUS PARKINS
Adrienne is a literature consultant who has
been a curator and advisor to publishers, media,
libraries and entertainment venues throughout
the UK. She is the founder and former director of
the Asia House Bagri Foundation Literature Festival.
Currently Adrienne is advising on the start-up of a new
festival in Southeast Asia, is a member of the DSC Prize
of South Asian Literature steering committee, and writes a
monthly column for The Asian Writer.
Andrew
WHITEHEAD
Andrew Whitehead is the author of A Mission in
Kashmir and a senior visiting research fellow at
the King’s India Institute. He’s a former BBC Delhi
correspondent and was until recently the editor of
BBC World Service News.
Anita
ANAND
Anita Anand has been a radio and television
journalist for almost twenty years. She is the
presenter of Any Answers, the political phone-in
programme on BBC Radio 4. During her career,
she has also presented Drive, Doubletake and the
Anita Anand Show on Radio 5 Live, and Saturday Live,
The Westminster Hour, Beyond Westminster, Midweek
and Woman’s Hour on Radio 4. On BBC television she
has presented The Daily Politics, The Sunday Politics and
Newsnight. She has interviewed five Indian Prime Ministers,
three from Pakistan and Great Britain and one
from Bangladesh. She lives in west London.
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Anita
RAGHAVAN
Anita
ROY
Anita Raghavan is the author of The Billionaire’s
Apprentice: The Rise of the Indian-American Elite
and the Fall of the Galleon Hedge Fund, which
was shortlisted for the Financial Times-Goldman
Sachs Book of the Year award in 2013. She has won the
Overseas Press Club and New York Press Club awards
for her work in the Wall Street Journal. Currently she is a
contributor to the New York Times.
Anita Roy is a writer, editor and performer. She
has spent the past two decades living and working
as a publisher in Delhi, helping to build up the
Young Zubaan imprint. Her work has appeared in
several anthologies, including Eat the Sky, Drink the
Ocean which she also co-edited.
Ashwin
SANGHI
Ashwin ranks among India’s highest-selling
fiction authors. He has written several bestsellers
(The Rozabal Line, Chanakya’s Chant, The Krishna
Key) besides co-authoring a thriller with James
Patterson. Included in the Forbes India Celebrity 100
and winner of Crossword’s Popular Choice Award,
Ashwin has recently penned a non-fiction title ‘13 Steps
to Bloody Good Luck’.
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Ashis
RAY
Ashis Ray is the longest serving Indian foreign
correspondent, having uninterruptedly worked in
this capacity for 38 years, mainly for BBC and CNN,
but also for the Ananda Bazar Group and the Times
of India, in addition to being the senior-most Indian
broadcaster and writer on cricket. He is the youngest
ever test match commentator, having made my debut
when I was 24 years old and has recently written a book
titled Cricket World Cup: The Indian Challenge
Carole
SATYAMURTI
Carole Satyamurti is a poet and former
sociologist. She has published several volume of
poetry, and her work has been widely anthologised.
Stitching the Dark: New and Selected Poems
(Bloodaxe) came out in 2005, and her latest collection
is Countdown (Bloodaxe, 2011) Her Mahabharata: A
Modern Retelling is published by Norton.
Dilip
HIRO
Dilip Hiro is a London-based Indian writer and
journalist with his focus on South, Central and
West Asia. His thirty-five books include Inside
India Today, Inside Central Asia, Apocalyptic Realm:
Jihadists in South Asia, and The Longest August: The
Unflinching Rivalry between India and Pakistan. His
Shah Jahan-o-Mumtaz was judged one of the best plays
in Delhi in 2014.
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Divya
MATHUR
Founder of Vatayan: Poetry on South Bank, Fellow
of the Royal Society of Arts and an award-winning
author, Divya Mathur has been honoured by the
Arts Council of England for promoting Indo-British
dialogue in the UK, addressing the cultural aspirations
of the Indian community at the level of thought and
shared experience since 1985.
Faisal
DEVJI
Dr. Faisal Devji is Reader in Modern South Asian
History and Fellow of St. Antony’s College at the
University of Oxford, where he is also Director of
the Asian Studies Centre. Specialising in intellectual
history and political thought, Devji is the author of four
books, on militant Islam, global politics, nonviolence
and nationalism. His last two monographs are The
Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence,
and Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea.
Farrukh
DHONDY
Farrukh Dhondy was born in Pune, India, He lives
in London and writes novels, sceenplays, among
the Bandit Queen and The Rising for Bollywood and
numerous films for the UK. He contributes regular
columns tor Indian publications. His latest books
are London Company, an autobiographical activist’s
memoir and Prophet of Love, a novel about
spritual fraud.
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Francesca
ORSINI
Francesca Orsini is Professor of Hindi and South
Asian literature at SOAS. Her research spans
contemporary Hindi literature, Hinglish, the cultural
history of love, Hindi and Urdu popular publishing
in the colonial period, and the longue durée of literary
multilingualism in north India, in particular of the
region of Awadh.
James
ASTILL
Janice
PARIAT
James Astill is the author of “The Great Tamasha;
Cricket, Corruption and the Turbulent Rise of
Modern India.” A social history of Indian cricket,
which examines the IPL as a representation of
India’s growth and change, it has won several awards,
including the MCC-Cricket Society Book of the Year, the
most prestigious in cricket writing. James is the Political
Editor and Bagehot columnist of The Economist.
Janice Pariat is the author of Boats on Land: A
Collection of Short Stories (Random House, India,
2012). She was awarded the Young Writer Award
from the Sahitya Akademi (Indian National Academy
of Letters) and the Crossword Book Award for Fiction
in 2013. Her novel Seahorse was published by Random
House, India in November, 2014.
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Jeff
KOEHLER
Jeff Koehler is an American writer, traveller, and
cook. He has written many books and articles
on food and culture including his most recent
book Morocco: A Culinary Journey with Recipes
from the Spice-Scented Markets of Marrakech to
the Date-Filled Oasis of Zagora. He has also been
a photographer for multiple cookbooks such as Rice,
Pasta, Couscous: The Heart of the Mediterranean
Kitchen, La Paella: Deliciously Authentic Recipes from Spain’s
Mediterranean Coast, and Spain: Recipes and Traditions from
the Verdant Hills of the Basque Country to the Coastal Waters
of Andalucia, named a New York Times Notable Book of 2013. He
now lives in Barcelona.
John
ELLIOTT
John Elliott is a former Financial Times journalist,
who has also written from South Asia for The
Economist, the New Statesman, and Fortune
magazine. His prize-winning book IMPLOSION:
India’s Tryst with Reality is now available as an updated
paperback (published by Harper Collins India and sold
internationally on Amazon and other sites).
Based in New Delhi, he writes a blog on South Asia’s current
affairs called Riding the Elephant that also appears on the
websites of The Independent (UK), Newsweek (US) and Asia
Sentinel (Hong Kong). He first went to India for the FT in 1983.
Jonathan
SHAININ
Jonathan Shainin is the editor of the Guardian’s
new Long Read section. He was previously the
online news editor at the New Yorker, and the senior
editor of the Caravan in Delhi.
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Lance
PRICE
Lance Price is the author of The Modi Effect Inside Narendra Modi’s campaign to transform
India, published by Hodder and Stoughton. He
worked at 10 Downing Street from 1998 to 2000 as
a media adviser to Tony Blair and a deputy to Alistair
Campbell. He was the Labour Party’s Director of
Communications from 2000 until the General Election
of 2001. Before joining Number Ten he was a BBC Political
Correspondent for many years. He is the author of three
previous books, The Spin Doctor’s Diary, Time and Fate, and
Where Power Lies. He is a regular commentator on politics and
world affairs on the BBC and other broadcasters.
Lily
WANGCHUK
Lily Wangchuk is President of Druk Chirwang
Tshogpa (Bhutan Social Democratic Party),
Chairperson of Bhutan Democracy Dialogue
and a well known writer from Bhutan. As a former
Bhutanese diplomat, ARR, UNDP Bhutan and Executive
Director for Bhutan Media Foundation, she brings with
her 20 years extensive experience in varied field. Lily has
a Masters Degree in Public Policy from, ANU, Australia; PG
Diploma in Human Rights, International Law & Refugee Law,
India; Bachelor Honours Degree in Political Science, Delhi
University,India. She has written numerous publications and
has won many awards including ANU Postgraduate Award from
ANU, Australia; Lions Club Award in India and was honoured as
Top Global Woman in 2013 by Diplomatic Courier, USA.
Malvika
SINGH
Malvika Singh is a publisher of Seminar, a
prestigious monthly magazine of ideas and
alternatives, founded in 1959 and a columnist for
The Telegraph. She is also Editorial Consultant at
Harmony magazine. She has written numerous books
such as Perpetual City: A Short Biography of Delhi,
Aleph, 2013; Bhutan: Through the Lens of the King (Text
for the book), Lustre Press, Roli Books, 2012; New Delhi:
Making of a Capital, Roli Books, 2009; Delhi: India in One
City, Academic Foundation, 2008 and Snowdon’s India.
She edited Delhi: The First City; Chennai: A City of Change;
Hyderabad: A City of Hope; Kolkata: A Soul City; Lucknow: A City
Between Cultures; Mumbai: A City of Dreams.
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Meghnad
DESAI
Meghnad Desai is Emeritus Professor of
Economics at LSE. His latest book is a Hubris : why
a economists failed to Predict the Recession and
How to Avoid the Next One.
Michael
HUTT
Michael Hutt is Professor of Nepali and
Himalayan Studies and Director of the South
Asia Institute at SOAS, University of London. He
specializes in the study of modern and contemporary
Nepali literature, of which he is also a leading
translator.
Moni
MOHSIN
Moni Mohsin was born and raised in Lahore,
Pakistan. She started her writing career at The
Friday Times, Pakistan’s first independent weekly,
where she served as the Features Editor. She is now
a freelance journalist and author of two novels, the
prize winning The End of Innocence and Duty Free. Her
best selling collection of satirical columns, The Dairy of a
Social Butterfly and The Return of the Butterfly, are based
on her long running column for The Friday Times.
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Mukulika
BANERJEE
Namita
GOKHALE
Mukulika Banerjee is Associate Professor in Social
Anthropology at the London School of Economics
and the first Director of the South Asia Centre to be
launched at LSE in June 2015. Her latest book Why
India Votes? was published by Routledge in 2014. She
is currently working on a monograph on democracy and
village life. Her doctoral research was on an anti-colonial
movement of non-violent civil disobedience among the
Pashtuns of the NWFP that was published as The Pathan
Unarmed (2000). She is also a co-author of a book on the
modernity of fashion, The Sari (2003) and edited Muslim
Portraits (2007).
Namita Gokhale is a writer, publisher and festival
director. She has written twelve books, including
several works of fiction. Her controversial first novel,
‘Paro: Dreams of Passion’, celebrated its thirtieth
anniversary edition in 2014. She has written ‘The Book
of Shiva’ and retold the Mahabharata for young readers.
She also co-edited the landmark anthology, ‘In Search
of Sita ’. A founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature
Festival and of ‘Mountain Echoes’, the annual Bhutan
Festival, Gokhale is committed to showcasing literature from
across the Indian languages. She currently curates ‘Kitabnama:
Books and Beyond’, a multilingual book show on the national
channel Doordarshan.
Nasreen
MUNNI KABIR
Born in India, Nasreen Munni Kabir lives in
London and has made several TV series for
Channel 4, UK, in addition to The Inner/Outer World
of Shah Rukh Khan. Author of 16 books, including
“Guru Dutt- A Life in Cinema,” “Lata Mangeshkar in
Her Own Voice,” “In the Company of a Poet: Gulzar”
and “Conversations with Waheeda Rehman.”
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Navtej
SARNA
William Dalrymple is the author of nine books
about India and the Islamic world, including City
of Djinns White Mughals, The Last Mughal and Nine
Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India. His
new book, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
1839-42 was published to acclaim in December. He
writes regularly for the New Yorker, the New York Review
of Books and the Guardian, and is one of the founders
and a co-director of the Zee Jaipur Literary Festival. He has
honorary doctorates of letters from the universities of St
Andrews, Aberdeen, Bradford and Lucknow, and in September
took up a visiting fellowship at Princeton.
Nils
NORDBERG
Nils Nordberg was a producer-director at NRK
Radio Drama Dept. from 1973–2009, author, critic,
dramatist, translator, editor. He has published
numerous reviews, articles and essays, mainly on
crime fiction, as well as short story anthologies and
the complete Sherlock Holmes stories. He is President
of Rivertonklubben, the Norwegian Crime Writers’
Association, 1977–1983, 1985–2001; member of B.S.I., hon.
member of The Danish Academy of Crime Fiction.
Pragya
TIWARI
Pragya Tiwari is a journalist who writes on politics
and public policy and edits a magazine on Indian
cinema called The Big Indian Picture.
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Qaisra
SHAHRAZ
Qaisra Shahraz is a British Pakistani critically
acclaimed novelist and scriptwriter whose work
is studied in schools and universities. Fellow of
the Royal Society of Arts and Director of Asia Pacific
writers and translators, Qaisra was recognised as
being one of 100 influential Pakistani women. She has
appeared at major literary festivals and book fairs. Her
bestselling novels Revolt and wTyphoon are translated into
several languages.
Rachel
DWYER
Rachel Dwyer is Professor of Indian Cultures and
Cinema at SOAS, University of London. Her most
recent book is Bollywood’s India: Hindi cinema as a
guide to modern India (London: Reaktion; Chicago:
University of Chicago Press)/Picture abhi baaki hai:
Bollywood as a guide to modern India
(New Delhi: Hachette).
Rajdeep
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SARDESAI
Rajdeep Sardesai is a senior journalist and
author of the best selling book ‘2014: The
Election that Changed India”. With 26 years of
journalistic experience in print and TV, Sardesai was
managing editor of the NDTV network before setting
up the IBN 18 network with channels like CNN IBN as
founder editor. He is presently a consulting editor to
the India Today group and anchors a prime time show on
Headlines Today. Specialising in national politics, Sardesai
has won numerous other awards for journalistic excellence,
including the prestigious Padma Shri for Journalism in 2008,
the International Broadcasters award for coverage of the 2002
Gujarat riots, and the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism
award for 2007.
Romesh
GUNESEKERA
Romesh Gunesekera’s Noontide Toll was
shortlisted for the 2015 DSC Prize. Last year
saw the 20 Anniversary edition of his Booker
shortlisted novel, Reef. He has written eight books of
fiction, including the highly acclaimed cricket novel,
The Match, and coauthored the Writers & Artists’
Companion to Novel Writing (2015). He is currently
chairing the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
Sadaf
SAAZ
Sadaf Saaz is a poet, writer, entrepreneur and
women’s rights activist. She grew up in the UK,
and studied Molecular Cell Biology at the University
of Cambridge. She now lives in Dhaka, where
she runs a travel and arts management company,
Jatrik. She is also Festival Director and co-founder
of Hay Festival Dhaka. Her debut poetry collection,
Sari Reams, was published in November 2013 by UPL.
Her series of monologues, ‘That which cannot be said’,
produced by Naripokkho, and based on Bangladeshi women’s
experiences, has recently been performed in various locations
in Bangladesh. She is currently working on a novel.
Sadakat
KADRI
Sadakat Kadri is a human rights barrister at
London’s Doughty Street Chambers. His most
recent book is Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through
Shari’a Law, and he writes on legal, historical and
political topics for various publications, including the
London Review of Books.
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Salil
TRIPATHI
Salil Tripathi was born in Bombay, where he
studied at New Era School and Sydenham College,
and obtained his Masters from Dartmouth College
in United States. He was a foreign correspondent
in Singapore in the 1990s and has since lived in
London. He writes for Mint, Caravan, and many other
publications. He received the Red Ink Award for Human
Rights Journalism from the Mumbai Press Club in April
2015. In 2011, he received one of the Bastiat Awards in New
York. Salil was on the board of English PEN, 2009-2013. He
is the author of The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The
Bangladesh War and its Unquiet Legacy (Aleph, 2014) and
Offence: The Hindu Case (Seagull, 2009). Westland Tranquebar
will publish his travel essays in Spring 2016.
Sam
MILLER
Sam Miller is the author of A Strange Kind of
Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes (2014),
Blue Guide: India (2011) and Delhi: Adventures in
a Megacity (2009). Most recently, he contributed
an essay entitled Gandhi the Londoner to the latest
edition of Granta. He has lived in Delhi for many years,
and works, on and off, for the BBC.
Sanjoy
ROY
Sanjoy K Roy is the Managing Director of
Teamwork with offices all over the world and has
directed and produced over 1000 hours of a wide
range of films and television shows. He has received
the National Award for Excellence and Best Director,
for the film `Shahjahanabad The Twilight Years’. He
is a founder trustee of Salaam Baalak Trust working to
provide support services for street and working children
in the inner city of Delhi where over 55,000 children have
benefitted from education, training and residential services
over the past years. The White House recently presented him
the US Presidents Committee of Arts and Humanities award for
an International Organization.
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Shabana
AZMI
Shabana Azmi is one of India’s most revered
film stars with more than 100 films and 5 Indian
National Film Awards to her credit. Apart from
her career in films, Shabana Azmi is a social activist
both on and off-screen. In 1997, she was elected to
the Upper House of Indian parliament. Shabana has
received many awards for her contributions to society. In
2006, she was the first Indian social activist to be awarded
the Gandhi International Peace Prize at the House of Lords
in London. In 2009, she received the World Economic Forum’s
Crystal Award for ‘using her art to reach out to other cultures’.
Shabana is a prime example of a constructively engaged global
citizen.
Shrabani
BASU
Shrabani Basu is a journalist and historian. She
is the author of Victoria & Abdul, The Story of the
Queen’s Closest Confidant, Spy Princess, The Life
of Noor Inayat Khan, and Curry, The Story of Britain’s
Favourite Dish. She is the founder and chair of the
Noor Inayat Khan Memorial Trust
Sidin
VADUKUT
Sidin Vadukut is the author of the best-selling
Dork trilogy of novels. His latest book is The
Sceptical Patriot, a critically acclaimed collection
of essays on Indian history. He is currently working
on a thriller novel set in Mumbai, a history of the
Danish East India Company and other assorted literary
amusements. Sidin is a foreign correspondent, editor and
columnist with the Mint business daily. He lives in London
with his family and several Arsenal scarves.
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Somnath
BATABYAL
Somnath Batabyal worked for a decade in
journalism, covering crime and criminality,
hobnobbing with politicians and policemen, before
entering the quieter world of Western academia. His
first book, Making News in India: Star News and Star
Ananda, was published in 2011. Somnath has recently
published his debut novel, The Price You Pay, with
HarperCollins. He lives in London and teaches at SOAS.
Suhel
SETH
Suhel Seth is Managing Partner of Counselage,
India’s only strategic branding and marketing
advising Chairpersons and CEOs across India and
the world. Suhel is a public speaker; a theatre and
film actor and an author of four books. Suhel also sits
on the boards of Coca Cola and Citibank and on various
foundation boards.
Swapan
DASGUPTA
Swapan Dasgupta is a writer and broadcaster on
Indian politics for the past 30 years. Based in Delhi,
he writes columns on politics for Times of India,
Telegraph, Pioneer, Jagran and Asian Age. He is a
regular on political talk shows on TV. A self-professed
conservative and believer in market economics, he was
active in the BJP campaign for the 2014 general election.
A doctorate in history from SOAS (London), he is working
on a study of the India’s Idea of Empire.
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Tahmima
ANAM
Tahmima Anam is the author of A Golden Age
and The Good Muslim. In 2013, she was named
one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. She
is a Contributing Opinion Writer for the International
New York Times. Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, she now
lives in Hackney, East London with her husband and
son.
Tara
GANDHI
Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee had the position of
Vice-Chairperson of Gandhi Smriti and Darshan
Samiti for nearly 9 years. Gandhi Smriti is the site
of the martyrdom of Mahatma Gandhi for truth
and non-violence. Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee is also
involved with the movement to protect rivers and the
environment of the country. She is the Chairperson
of Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust, founded
by Mahatma Gandhi in the memory of his wife; Kasturba
Gandhi National Memorial Trust. KGNMT is one of the oldest
pre-independence, non-governmental institutions serving the
needy women and children of rural India.
Tim
SUPPLE
Tim Supple has created theatre throughout the
world. He has worked regularly at the National
Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company and
was Artistic Director of the Young Vic Theatre. For
Dash Arts, he directed the internationally celebrated
multi-lingual Indian A Midsummer Nights Dream
and a six-hour adaptation of The One Thousand and
One Nights, the Arabic-speaking world for Edinburgh
International Festival.
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Urvashi
BUTALIA
Urvashi Butalia is a publisher and writer. Cofounder of Kali for Women, India’s first feminist
publishing house, she is now Director of Zubaan,
an imprint of Kali. Among her published works
are Speaking Peace: Women’s Voices from Kashmir
(edited) and the award winning history of Partition, The
Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India.
V.S.
NAIPAUL
V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He
went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After
four years at University College, Oxford, he began
to write, and since then has followed no other
profession. He was knighted in 1989, was awarded
the David Cohen British Literature Prize in 1993, and
received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He lives in
Wiltshire, England.
Vayu
NAIDU
Vayu Naidu, commissioned by Bagri Foundation
and The British Library, looks at Sufi romances
by Jaisi in PRISM a storytelling performance. After
SITA’S ASCENT her first novel published by Penguin
and launched at Jaipur Literature Festival 2013, her
forthcoming novel is a work of historical fiction.
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William
DALRYMPLE
William Dalrymple is the author of nine books
about India and the Islamic world, including City
of Djinns White Mughals, The Last Mughal and Nine
Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India. His
new book, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
1839-42 was published to acclaim in December. He
writes regularly for the New Yorker, the New York Review
of Books and the Guardian, and is one of the founders
and a co-director of the Zee Jaipur Literary Festival. He has
honorary doctorates of letters from the universities of St
Andrews, Aberdeen, Bradford and Lucknow, and in September
took up a visiting fellowship at Princeton.
Alison
JOSEPH
Alison Joseph is a London-based crime writer
and radio dramatist, ex Chair of the Crime Writers’
Association, and author of the Sister Agnes series.
Her new crime novel, Dying to Know, is all about
particle physics. Alison’s latest novel, Murder Will Out,
features Agatha Christie as a detective.
Anshuman
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JAIN
Anshu Jain became Co-Chief Executive Officer
of Deutsche Bank in 2012 and was subsequently
appointed head of Global Markets and later head
of the Corporate & Investment Bank. He sits on the
Board of Directors of the Institute of International
Finance, is a member of the Financial Services Forum
and also serves on the International Advisory Panel of the
Monetary Authority of Singapore. He is Chairman of the
Board of Trustees of the Alfred Herrhausen Society. In 2014,
he was awarded an honorary doctorate by TERI University in
New Delhi, and an Honorary Fellowship from London Business
School. In 2012, The Economic Times of India named him Global
Indian of the Year. In 2010, he received a Lifetime Achievement
Award from Risk magazine.
Achala
SHARMA
Achala Sharma, writer and broadcaster, is the
former Head of the BBC Hindi Service in London.
She is the author of three collections of short stories
(Bardashta Bahar, Madhyantar and Sookha Hua
Samudra) and two volumes of radio plays (Passport &
Jaren). She has won a number of awards.
Zareer
MASANI
Zareer Masani has an Oxford history doctorate
and is the author of several books, including
biographies of Indira Gandhi and Lord Macaulay
and a widely acclaimed family memoir. Zareer spent
two decades as a current affairs producer for the
BBC. He is now a freelance historian, journalist and
broadcaster.
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Saberi
MISRA
Born into a musical family, Saberi has been surrounded by music from the day she was born.
Saberi is learning hindustani vocal from her mother, an eminent vocalist and vocal guru at
the Bharatya Vidya Bhavan Sreemati Chandrima Misra. As well as vocal she is also learning
tabla from her father, a tabla maestro and tabla guru at the Bharatya Vidya Bhavan centre
Pandit Rajkumar Misra. Saberi is also a professional kathak dancer and she has been learning
from her grandmother Sreemati Susmita Misra from the age of 3. Saberi is currently in year 13
studying at St James Senior girls’ school.
On tabla with her is Dhanraj Persaud a senior student of Pandit Rajkumar Misra and on
harmonium by Prabhat Rao a senior student of Sreemati Chandrima Misra.
About Bhavan: Bhavan is an indian cultural institution where music, dance, languages are
taught, as well as hosting many cultural programs and exhibitions. Bhavan currently has more
than 900 students.
16th & 17th May, 10:30am-11:00am
FRONT ROOM AT QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL
Kutle
KHAN
The Kutle Khan Project is a unique collective of Rajasthani folk musicians highlighting Kutle
Khan, a multi-talented folk musician who has performed on various stages across the world;
his music is as seductive as it is rhythmically complex and culturally celebrative.
He embodies the rich melodic and sophisticated rhythmic traditions of Rajasthani folk music,
and his performances are informed by his understanding of contemporary Indian and Western
musical traditions, a perfect part of our socially charged lineup.
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17th May, 6:00PM onwards
FRONT ROOM AT QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL
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20 Book Launches
ZEE
JAIPUR
LITERATURE
FESTIVAL
2015
Started in 2006, with only 18 authors, within
8 years Jaipur Literature Festival has become
one of the largest and greatest festivals in
the world, with over 200,000 visitors each year
and writers and speakers including Salman
Rushdie, Oprah Winfrey, Vikram Seth, Jhumpa
Lahiri, Tash Aw, Taiye Selasi, Reza Aslan, Orhan
Pamuk, Jonathan Franzen and JM Coetzee.
393 speakers, musicians & performers in
2015
173 panels, discussions, debates and
readings across 6 venues
Over 20 major prizes were represented
by their winners and nominees at the
festival, including Nobel Prize, ManBooker Prize, Commonwealth Prize,
Commonwealth Writers Award, ManAsian Literary Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Sahitya
Akademi and others
50 schools and educational institutions in
the outreach program
22 languages represented
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4 award announcements
13 concerts and performances
2,70,000 approximate footfalls over 5 days
47% local attendance
42% from the rest of India
11% international visitors
20 speaker nationalities included British,
American, Pakistani, Australian, New
Zealand, South African, Canadian,
Bangladeshi, Norwegian, Spanish,
Swedish, French, Israeli, Irish, Thai and
Sri Lankan
16,230 books sold over five days
Speakers 2016
Adam Thirlwell
al kennedy
alex ross
alexandra harris
alexsanda hemon
andrew roberts
anita agnihotri
carole satyamurti
christina lamb
desraj kali
dexter filkins
dhrubajyoti bora
edmund de waal
fiona mccarthy
gajra kottary
ha joon
hermione lee
ian mcewan
jorie graham
karen armstrong
kazuo ishiguro
mahesh bhatt
margaret atwood
margaret macmillan
marina warner
max hastings
michael cunnigham
nathan englander
neel mukherjee
noam chomsky
patti smith
peter sacks
pj harvey
prajwal parajuly
purushottam agarwal
reba som
roberto calasso
rohinton mistry
samhita arni
sidin vadukut
simon schama
stephen greenblat
thomas piketty
tilda swinton
tulsi badrinath
william boyd
“A THINKER’S
PARADISE, A
LITERATURE
LOVER’S
DELIGHT”
- THE TIMES OF INDIA
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Two years ago, the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival
began an important new initiative: Jaipur
BookMark (JBM). Conceptualized as a business
to business segment, JBM is held parallel to
ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival, in a quiet nearby
venue and provides a platform for publishers,
literary agents, authors, translation agencies
and writers to meet, talk business deals, listen
to speakers from across the world and perhaps
even sign the occasional contract.
The second edition of JBM built on the first
and brought together complex and enriching
discussions on that all-important thing,
content, as well as digitization, the importance
of libraries, the question of business mergers,
the synergy between books and films and
much more. JBM 2016 will continue these
discussions but also bring in an important new
focus: translations and rights.
With its wealth of literatures in over 23
languages, India offers a rich landscape of
writing. JBM is well placed to showcase the
best of such writing and to help facilitate the
sale and exchange of rights both between
Indian languages and internationally. JBM
2016 will feature a catalogue of a select list
of works on offer for translation, samples of
translations for publishers and agents to get a
feel of the work, discussions on rights sales and
contracts for print, digital and film. Currently,
no other publishing platform in India offers
the possibility of both getting to know India’s
varied literatures, and making contact with
publishers and authors from those languages.
If you’re a publisher or an agent - whether
Indian or international - in search of new
authors, new subjects, new languages, new
countries, new literatures - you can’t afford to
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To register log on to:
http://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/
registration/jaipur-bookmark-registration
For more information write to us at:
[email protected]
FESTIVAL DIRECTORS:
Special thanks to our Sponsors & Partners
GOVERNMENT OF RAJASTHAN
Vasundhara Raje
Hon. Chief Minister of Rajasthan
Shailendra Kumar Agarwal
Secretary Department of Culture
Mira Mehrishi
Sanjay Malhotra
VEDANTA
Mr.Anil Agarwal
Fiona Parmar
ZEE
Roland Landers
Abhishek Agrawal
TAJ HOTELS
Namita Gokhale
William Dalrymple
PRODUCER
Sanjoy Roy
Sheuli Sethi
HEAD OF PRODUCTION
Ankur Bhardwaj
FESTIVAL SECRETARIAT
Kritika Gupta
Sukhman Khera
Srishti Jha
SPONSORSHIP
Preeta Singh
Rajatri Biswas
Shruti Agarwal
Siddhartha Butalia
Shalini Grover
UK PARTNER
GROVER WINES
DESIGN AND WEBSITE
Sumedh Singh Mandla
Sumit Jaiswal
Dimple Athavia
APEEJAY GROUP
Veronica Gledhill Hall
Ujan Dutta
Anand Raj
PR
Priti Paul
Atika Gupta
Vidushi Khera
Mary Rahman
Veronica Gledhill Hall
NORLA
INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL AND VISAS
Oliver Moystad
Margit Walso
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
HARPER COLLINS
CII
Gunveena Chadha
Shuchita Sonalika
Rita Hunt
Raj Bhatt
Shrabani Basu
Shomit Mitter
Vinayak Bhattacharya
Kiraan Sharma
Lucy Beresford
Vinayak Bhattacharjee
Arpit Goyal
Shams Jawaid
DIGITAL TEAM
Vikram Bhardwaj
Sukriti Sharma
Reprise Media
AUDIO VISUAL
Manoj Kumar
We thank the team at
Southbank Centre:
Jude Kelly
Rachel Harris
Rebecca Hanna-Grindall
Anna Selby
Rhodri Jones
Matthew Holt
Adam Howard
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About
TEAMWORK ARTS
The arts of India are unrivalled in their depth, diversity and mystery. To showcase this
work to diverse audiences requires a deep understanding of our arts, an acute sense
of relevance in programming, and an unflinching attention to organisational detail.
Above all, we at Teamwork believe in respect and love for the artist.
For 25 years, Teamwork has presented the
finest of Indian writers, artists and performers
to our nation and to the world.
In countries such as Australia, Canada, Egypt,
France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Israel,
Singapore, South Africa, Spain and USA,
Teamwork produces over 21 highly acclaimed
performing arts, visual arts and literary
festivals.
A distinctly versatile entertainment
company, Teamwork has roots in the
performing arts, social movement, and the
corporate world. Our expertise lies in the
areas of entertainment such as television,
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creation and development of contemporary
performing arts, visual arts & literary festivals
across the world. We strongly believe in
nurturing new talent across all art forms.
Among the many festivals we produce is the
annual Jaipur Literature Festival, which is
Asia’s biggest literary gathering, Our musical
extravaganza, Bollywood Love Story- A
Musical continues to tour the world. The
annual Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards
(META) and the Ishara International Puppet
Festival has been consistently successful.
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