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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…

Dear Reader, We are sitting on the eighth floor, in a rooftop bar, overlooking the city of Jaipur. The day has been sunny, but it’s turned chilly now and we choose a table by a glowing coal-filled sigri heater. The talk is about a Kanjeevaram sari-clad nightclub singer. She told us stories from her life. When she was ten years old, she began helping her elder brothers win kite flying competitions by making the best manjha coating kite flying thread with cooked rice, glue and glass powder. It gave me the confidence that…

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,…