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Mary Beard is everybody’s favourite poster girl. A classics don from Cambridge, Beard is revered for rescuing Roman history from a dusty discipline, elevating it to a primer on personality and power. Beard is erudite and entertaining; she writes expansively on ancient Rome – everything from laughter to shoes to sex in the swimming pool.A good place to start reading Mary Beard is It’s a Don’s Life. This memoir began as a blog on her life as a don (a lecturer) in Cambridge. I found it zippy and sparkly; it talks about…

You may love it or hate it, but you just cannot ignore it. This is perhaps the best way to describe what the annual Jaipur Literature Festival has come to mean for authors, book lovers, publishing industry professionals, and journalists, who write about the world of books. It is big, vibrant, heady, stimulating, tiresome and heartwarming – all at once. At the 17th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival held at Hotel Clarks Amer from February 1 to 5, everyone seemed excited to attend “the greatest literary show on…

Five days of the Jaipur Literature Festival do more for Rajasthan tourism than what the state government does for it during the entire year, Deputy Chief Minister Diya Kumari said on Thursday at the grand launch of another edition of the annual event. Diya Kumari speaks at Jaipur Literature Festival Kumari also thanked the organisers, saying the literature festival put the 'Pink City' on the world map. Catch the complete coverage of Budget 2024 only on HT. Explore now! The sun shone a little brighter than usual…

You will be in India soon to speak at the Jaipur Literature Festival. What are you looking forward to? Have you visited India or interacted with your Indian readers before this? I have always wanted to visit India since 2007 when I had a roommate, Abhinav Bhattacharya, from Assam who would always tell me about India. But even more, India is, to my mind, a singular literary fount that has produced great writers like Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Anuradha Roy, and others. In fact, Indian readers have been very generous to…

As you prepare to be in India to speak at the Jaipur Literature Festival, what are some of the thoughts running through your mind? Have you been to Jaipur, or other parts of India before? I am very excited! I have never been to Jaipur, but so many friends have told me about how beautiful it is. When I was a college student, I spent a year travelling through Asia. This included several months in India, visiting Calcutta, Varanasi, Agra, and Delhi. I was 19 years old then, so this was a very long time ago but I have never…

On the first day of the iconic Jaipur Literature Festival, one of the major highlights of the 29-session-long day was Turkish author Elif Shafak in conversation with Nandini Nair. The Booker shortlisted author, in an engaging conversation, talked about her latest work The Island of Missing Trees, and the place for politics, tradition and human values in the world of storytelling.The author stressed on the importance of the novel in its ability to remind people of the world and its complexities. “You do not have the luxury…

Canadian-American author Steven Pinker, in an engaging session at Jaipur Literature Festival, opened up about his latest work Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters. In conversation with Mihir S. Sharma, Pinker talked about how this book is a sort of homecoming for him. “Rationality, in many ways, is a return to my home turf. I am trained as a cognitive psychologist. So my specialty is how the mind works and by extension what is human nature. It is not just about what we think but also about what are…

As the third day of Jaipur Literature Festival’s virtual sessions got under way, Canadian actor-comedian Lilly Singh interviewed American author Neel Patel. Neel’s book debut novel Tell Me How to Be was the first pick of Lilly’s book club. “I loved it that much,” Singh said before beginning the interview, adding, “I dived into the story and the characters. The book was extremely emotional. Who did you write this book for?”Patel said the book came from the experience of an Indian-origin boy living in America. “I wrote it…

It was around the end of 9th century, Khanna said, that two magnificent retellings of the Rama tale appeared in central Java. It was around the end of 9th century, Khanna said, that two magnificent retellings of the Rama tale appeared in central Java. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners,…

Marc David Baer’s fascinating works of non-fiction delve into the unknown characteristics of emperors who navigated the political landscape much like we see politicians do today. His latest work The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs makes the argument that the 16th century was, in fact, not the pivotal moment of decline for the Ottomans. The author who was at the Jaipur Literature Festival, explains how much of the politics remains the same among rulers, even today. Excerpts:How strong a political tool is history? In…