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Ranbir Kapoor - TBIP Tete-a-Tete - Full Interview
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Ranbir Kapoor - TBIP Tete-a-Tete - Full Interview

The TBIP Tête-à-Tête is a series of in-depth and intimate interviews with film personalities who are critical to this era of filmmaking. It is an attempt to understand their body of work. And their minds. Because who they are intrigues us just as much as what they do. Because what they do is because of who they are. In certain cases, despite who they are. Because integral to the love of cinema is the love of cinema's idols— the chosen few whose mystique remains intact despite the tabloids' obsession with their lives. As soon as Ranbir Kapoor walks into the room, you know is a star. Not because he is saleable. Not because he is from the Hindi film industry's 'first family'. Not because he is likely to be mobbed on the streets. Not because he is all over the gossip magazines. Not even because he keeps his dark glasses on. You can tell Ranbir Kapoor is a star because he has that certain je ne sais quoi; that elusive glimmer we know oh-so well and yet can hardly sum up. But that is not all that makes him intriguing. Ranbir is a fourth-generation legatee of a family that has etched a place for itself in every era of the last 100 years of Indian cinema. The Kapoors are synonymous with style, panache, revelry, songs, success, glamour, brilliance and an unshakeable allegiance to the movies. Ranbir, named after his grandfather, is taking his own road to being a Kapoor. The Kapoor legacy for Ranbir is like the unseen backstory of a character that an actor uses merely as a reference in his process. The real journey of the character begins from the first frame of the film. Ranbir is also the quintessential representative of his generation. This month he turns 30. Already an accomplished actor, he has experimented with different genres. But he is not one to rest on his laurels, let alone his family's. Infact he is not one to rest at all. He is in a hurry to keep moving and find out what happens next. He is not interested in mere laurels either. What concerns him most is his journey-- the question of who he is and who else he can be. The one thing that sticks out about him is his single-minded curiosity-- a curiosity that borders on insatiable hunger. He is not satisfied. He is not smug. And yet, the surface is placid. He makes it all look effortless. Real cool. He says he hasn't found his identifiable star trait yet. That is precisely what makes him stand apart. He is enviably comfortable in his own skin. And as you watch him lie back and take on the world, never losing sight of what is real and what is not, you know a new kind of star is born. - Pragya Tiwari, Editor-in-Chief, The Big Indian Picture Visit www.thebigindianpicture.com
Sooni Taraporevala - TBIP Tête-à-Tête
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Sooni Taraporevala - TBIP Tête-à-Tête

The TBIP Tête-à-Tête is a series of in-depth and intimate interviews with film personalities who are critical to this era of filmmaking. It is an attempt to understand their body of work. And their minds. Because who they are intrigues us just as much as what they do. Because what they do is because of who they are. In certain cases, despite who they are. Because integral to the love of cinema is the love of cinema's idols— the chosen few whose mystique remains intact despite the tabloids' obsession with their lives. Sooni Taraporevala, 56, grew up in a large Parsi family in South Bombay, leading a fairly regular life until the day she found out she had been accepted to study in Harvard University as an undergraduate. She had applied for a lark and still cannot believe she got in. Harvard opened up a whole new world for her, sowing the seeds for the extraordinary work she was to do as a photographer and screenwriter later in life. It was also here that she met her collaborator in cinema, Mira Nair. After her post-graduation she moved back to Bombay without a plan, "for emotional reasons". Back in her hometown, she began photographing her community, building an unparalleled body of photographic work compiled in several exhibitions and a book called Parsis: the Zoroastrians of India - A Photographic Journey. Furthermore, she brought to life a city slum in Salaam Bombay!, Mira Nair's directorial debut. Since then she has written several films including her own debut feature as a director, Little Zizou. She wants to continue writing films, directing them and taking pictures. Also on the bucket list is a novel. Here is hoping the newly acquired and richly deserved Padma Shri will keep her motivated. Visit www.thebigindianpicture.com
Farah Khan - The TBIP Tete-a-Tete
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Farah Khan - The TBIP Tete-a-Tete

The Big Indian Picture - http://thebigindianpicture.com The TBIP Tête-à-Tête is a series of in-depth and intimate interviews with film personalities who are critical to this era of filmmaking. It is an attempt to understand their body of work. And their minds. Because who they are intrigues us just as much as what they do. Because what they do is because of who they are. In certain cases, despite who they are. Because integral to the love of cinema is the love of cinema's idols— the chosen few whose mystique remains intact despite the tabloids' obsession with their lives. Farah Khan was born into a film family. Her father lost everything, making movies that did not do well. They were poor and isolated overnight and the family fell apart. But Farah held on to her dark sense of humour, her affection for irony and survived. Starting off as a choreographer in small budget films, she went on to turn film choreography on its head. After that very successful stint, she took up direction at a time when women directors were still a rarity in the Hindi film industry. But she refused to let her gender define her. Her films were not niche treatises on women's issues but hugely mounted commercial blockbusters. That is not to say that she would toe the formulaic line— that is just not Farah. Instead she took the formula and contemporized it, like she did her choreography. Presented it with a twist of tongue-in-cheek humour, as she does her life in this interview. Keep up on Facebook - www.facebook.com/TheBigIndianPicture Follow us on Twitter @TBIPicture
Nawazuddin Siddiqui - The TBIP Tête-à-Tête
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Nawazuddin Siddiqui - The TBIP Tête-à-Tête

The Big Indian Picture - A magazine of cinema and culture - http://thebigindianpicture.com The TBIP Tête-à-Tête is a series of in-depth and intimate interviews with film personalities who are critical to this era of filmmaking. It is an attempt to understand their body of work. And their minds. Because who they are intrigues us just as much as what they do. Because what they do is because of who they are. In certain cases, despite who they are. Because integral to the love of cinema is the love of cinema's idols— the chosen few whose mystique remains intact despite the tabloids' obsession with their lives. Attempting to chat with Nawazuddin Siddiqui at a party is an awkward exercise. He barely has anything to say because he is simply not very good at making small talk. Interviewing him makes you feel like even more of an imposter. The traditional structure of an interview, the pre-designed questions, the whole format seems entirely unnecessary because you can tell he does not quite get what the fuss is about. The formality makes him stiffen, even though he has nothing to keep from you. Especially because he has nothing to keep from you. And yet, strip the formalities away, put him in a room with friends and he is the very life of a conversation—recounting anecdotes, confessing, mimicking, philosophizing—no holds barred. So here is something in between an informal chat and formal interview with the actor whose rise to fame has become a redemptive tale for actors struggling to break through the ranks of impossibly handsome or hereditary stars. Nothing about Nawaz's life reflects stardom as we have come to know it and yet he is undisputedly a star— not one who consciously breaks moulds but one who is what he is because he neither knows nor cares about another way of being. Until he hears the call: "Action". http://facebook.com/TheBigIndianPicture http://twitter.com/TBIPicture
Jaipur Literature Festival
Ramesh Patange, Pragya Tiwari | Manuvad and Modernity | Jaipur Literature Festival
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Ramesh Patange, Pragya Tiwari | Manuvad and Modernity | Jaipur Literature Festival

Manuvad and Modernity: Ramesh Patange & Pragya Tiwari Ramesh Patange is a senior activist, thinker and ideologue of RSS. He is the former editor of the Marathi weekly Vivek and the monthly Udyog Krishi magazine. He is one of the founders of the Samajik Samarasata Manch, Bhatke-Vimukata Vikash Parishad and Samrasta Sahitya Parishad. He has 52 books to his name and has edited 50 special volumes. Awards: Tilak Samarasta Purskar (2017), Lokmany Tilak Lifetime Achievement Award (2017), Manikchand Vajpayee National Award (2017) Bestselling/ popular Books: Me, Manu ani Sangh, The Sangh Parivar and The Non- HIndus Pragya Tiwari is a journalist who has written extensively on politics, identity, policy, and culture and edited publications such as Tehelka, The Big Indian Picture and Vice. She currently works as a policy and culture consultant. Manuvad and Modernity Scholar and activist Ramesh Patange speaks of caste, social structures and the tenets of Manuvad in the context of modern Indian society. In conversation with writer and journalist Pragya Tiwari, he shares his thoughts on justice and equity, and the reorientation needed to ‘decaste’ the Hindu approach. Patange is the author of 52 books. His latest book Mi, Manu ani Sangh has been translated into Hindi and other regional languages. THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL Described as the 'greatest literary show on Earth', the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas. The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access. Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world's greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue. Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur. Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Beatty and Yan Martel, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer, Benjamin Moser, Colson Whitehead and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary luminaries including Amish Tripathi, Chima¬manda Ngozi Adichie, Vikram Chandra and Vikram Seth. An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 33 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally. Link to our website: https://www.jaipurliteraturefestival.org Link to Jaipur Literature Festival 2019 sessions: https://bit.ly/31bmftK Links to the other session by Pragya Tiwari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ0fnLUo45o&t=719s Social media links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JaipurLitFest/?fref=ts Twitter: https://twitter.com/JaipurLitFest/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaipurlitfest/
Chintan Chandrachud, Christophe Jaffrelot, Manoranjan Byapari, Sukhadeo Thorat and Pragya Tiwari
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Chintan Chandrachud, Christophe Jaffrelot, Manoranjan Byapari, Sukhadeo Thorat and Pragya Tiwari

Dr. Ambedkar and His Legacy: Chintan Chandrachud, Christophe Jaffrelot, Manoranjan Byapari, Sukhadeo Thorat and Pragya Tiwari Chintan Chandrachud is an associate at a leading international law firm in London. His practice focuses on commercial litigation, international arbitration and tax litigation. He is the author of Balanced Constitutionalism: Courts and Legislatures in India and the United Kingdom and writes frequently for Indian newspapers, including The Indian Express and The Hindu. Christophe Jaffrelot is Senior Research Fellow at CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS and Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the King’s India Institute in London. Dr. Jaffrelot’s recent publications include, The Pakistan Paradox, Business and Politics in India, The Majoritarian State How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India and Bhimrao Ambedkar, Ek Jivni. Sukhadeo Thorat is an economist by training and has done research on rural poverty and agricultural growth and the economics of the caste system, amongst other subjects. He has served as the founding Director of the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, Chairman of the University Grants Commission and Chairman of the Indian Council of Social Science Research. Thorat has been awarded Honorary D.Litt, D.Sc, D.S. (Doctor of Education) and LLD Degrees by 12 universities. He has published 19 books and around 100 research papers. In 2008, Thorat was awarded the Padma Shri, India’s fourth-highest civilian award, the Mother Teresa International Award, the Babasaheb Ambedkar Ratna Award by the Delhi government for his dedication and extraordinary contributions on the works and thoughts of Dr. Ambedkar and, most recently, the Dr. Ambedkar National Award for Social Understanding and Upliftment of Weaker Section. Pragya Tiwari is a journalist who has written extensively on politics, identity, policy, and culture and edited publications such as Tehelka, The Big Indian Picture and Vice. She currently works as a policy and culture consultant. Dr. Ambedkar and His Legacy: Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar's vision has framed and sustained the very idea of Ind ia. His sweeping scholarship, his essential courage and humanity and his role in the making of the Indian Constitution have made him the most enduring icon of modern India. Ambedkar's life and philosophy combined fierce idealism and cerebral pragmatism. A century and quarter after his birth, as political interests of varied hues struggle to own and appropriate his legacy, a distinguished and diverse panel assesses his battle for equality and its aftermath. THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL Described as the 'greatest literary show on Earth', the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas. The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access. Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world's greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue. Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur. Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Beatty and Yan Martel, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer, Benjamin Moser, Colson Whitehead and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary luminaries including Amish Tripathi, Chima¬manda Ngozi Adichie, Vikram Chandra and Vikram Seth. An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 33 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally. Link to our website: https://www.jaipurliteraturefestival.org Link to Jaipur Literature Festival 2018 sessions: https://bit.ly/3bZZgaD Social media links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JaipurLitFes... Twitter: https://twitter.com/JaipurLitFest/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaipurlitfest/
Angellica Aribam,Varun Mathew,Pallavi Raghavan,Rafiul Alom Rahman,Pragya Tiwari | We That are Young
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Angellica Aribam,Varun Mathew,Pallavi Raghavan,Rafiul Alom Rahman,Pragya Tiwari | We That are Young

We That are Young: Angellica Aribam, Varun Mathew, Pallavi Raghavan, Rafiul Alom Rahman and Pragya Tiwari Angellica Aribam is a political activist and the founder of Femme First Foundation, which is aimed at amplifying women's political leadership. Named one of Forbes India's ‘30 Under 30’ in 2017, Aribam has been working on issues of race, gender and the democratisation of politics. She is a former National General Secretary of the NSUI and was also the first student from the marginalised northeastern region to be elected in Delhi University. Varun Thomas Mathew is a writer and lawyer. His first novel, The Black Dwarves of the Good Little Bay, was published in 2019 and was shortlisted for the Tata Literature Live First Book Award. Pallavi Raghavan is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Ashoka University. Her forthcoming book, Animosity at Bay: An Alternative History of the India-Pakistan Relationship, 1947- 1952, will be released in February. Rafiul is the founder of The Queer Muslim Project. He represents India on the Beijing+25 Global Youth Task Force set up by UN Women. Nominated as a ‘Young Changemaker’ by The Hindu Business Line in 2018, Rafiul brings with him a decade of experience in gender and sexuality rights organising. Pragya Tiwari is a journalist who has written extensively on politics, identity, policy, and culture and edited publications such as Tehelka, The Big Indian Picture and Vice. She currently works as a policy and culture consultant. India, one of the oldest cultures in the world, also has the largest youth population. What are their aspirations, their fears, their vulnerabilities? How do they view the future of their nation and their planet? As students surge into the streets to reclaim their political voice, a session that searches what it means to be young in today's India. Motwani Jadeja Foundation THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL Described as the 'greatest literary show on Earth', the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas. The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access. Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world's greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue. Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur. Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Beatty and Yan Martel, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer, Benjamin Moser, Colson Whitehead and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary luminaries including Amish Tripathi, Chima¬manda Ngozi Adichie, Vikram Chandra and Vikram Seth. An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 33 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally. Link to our website: https://www.jaipurliteraturefestival.org Link to Jaipur Literature Festival 2020 sessions: https://bit.ly/2YupL3F Social media links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JaipurLitFes... Twitter: https://twitter.com/JaipurLitFest/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaipurlitfest/
Yashica Dutt, Raghav Chandra, Pragya Tiwari | Kali's Daughter | Jaipur Literature Festival
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Yashica Dutt, Raghav Chandra, Pragya Tiwari | Kali's Daughter | Jaipur Literature Festival

Kali's Daughter: Coming out as a Dalit: Yashica Dutt, Raghav Chandra & Pragya Tiwari Yashica Dutt is an author and a journalist who shifted the narrative on how Dalits were perceived in Indian media after she 'came out as Dalit' in 2016. Her first book, Coming Out as Dalit, was recently released in the Indian subcontinent to an overwhelmingly positive reception and has earned rave reviews from almost all major Indian publications. She is soon bringing the book to the United States and the rest of the world and hopes to bring powerful Dalit narratives in the global spotlight. Raghav Chandra is the author of Kali’s Daughter that poignantly unravels caste issues in the highest echelons of Indian society. His earlier novel Scent of a Game was themed around wildlife hunting and conservation. He has held significant positions in the government and has been a Mason Fellow at Harvard. He writes on inclusive growth and sustainability and is the Director of the Bhopal Literature Pragya Tiwari is a journalist who has written extensively on politics, identity, policy, and culture, and edited publications such as Tehelka, The Big Indian Picture and Vice. She currently works as a policy and culture consultant. She is the Co-founder and editor of the Indian History Collective. A moving and disturbing session that transposes personal memoir and fictional narrative to probe the hurt and injustice of the caste system. New York-based journalist Yashica Dutt's radical memoir Conning Out as a Dalit speaks of coming to terms with her identity, the consequences of her community's lack of access to education, the paucity of Dalit voices in mainstream media and other crucial issues. Raghav Chandra's novel Kali’s Daughter is centred around the figure of Deepika, a Dalit girl who makes it to the Indian Foreign Services and the conflicts and dilemmas that follow her in her career. In conversation with journalist Pragya Tiwari, they discuss the intersections of caste, class, privilege and the precarious path to social equity. Presented by Amar Ujala THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL Described as the 'greatest literary show on Earth', the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas. The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access. Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world's greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue. Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur. Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Beatty and Yan Martel, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer, Benjamin Moser, Colson Whitehead and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary luminaries including Amish Tripathi, Chima¬manda Ngozi Adichie, Vikram Chandra and Vikram Seth. An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 33 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally. Link to our website: https://www.jaipurliteraturefestival.org Link to Jaipur Literature Festival 2020 sessions: https://bit.ly/3BzdOHV Links to the other session by Pragya Tiwari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaD47tHg3yo Links to the other session by Pragya Tiwari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj3KC5niCVM Social media links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JaipurLitFes... Twitter: https://twitter.com/JaipurLitFest/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaipurlitfest/
Session 138
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Swapan Dasgupta, Saba Naqvi, Makarand R. Paranjape, Pragya Tiwari | Eyes Right: Awakening Bharatmata
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Swapan Dasgupta, Saba Naqvi, Makarand R. Paranjape, Pragya Tiwari | Eyes Right: Awakening Bharatmata

Eyes Right: Awakening Bharatmata: Swapan Dasgupta, Saba Naqvi, Makarand R. Paranjape and Pragya Tiwari Swapan Dasgupta is a Member of Parliament and columnist for major Indian newspapers. A journalist for 30 years, he occupied senior editorial positions at the Times of India, Indian Express and India Today. He writes regular columns for Times of India, Telegraph and Pioneer, and is a commentator on TV networks. He is the author of Awakening Bharat Mata: The Political Beliefs of the Indian Right. In 2015, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan and was nominated to the Rajya Sabha. Saba Naqvi is one of India's best-known journalists. The former political editor of Outlook magazine, she now writes columns in leading Indian dailies including the Times of India,The Tribune and several websites. She is also a well-known election analyst and political commentator. She is currently visiting professor at the Jindal School of Journalism. She has published four books: In Good Faith, Capital Conquest, Shades of Saffron:From Vajpayee to Modi and her latest The Coalition Handbook. She is currently working on her next book on India’s backsliding democracy. Makarand R. Paranjape is currently Director at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. He has been Professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University for over 20 of his 39 years as a university teacher. He is the author of some 20 and editor of over two-dozen books, in addition to hundreds of academic papers and popular articles. His latest books include Swami Vivekananda: Hinduism and India’s Road to Modernity, New Perspectives in Indian Science and Civilisation, Debating the 'Post' Condition in India and The Death and Afterlife of Mahatma Gandhi. Paranjape is currently a columnist for Open Magazine, Mail Today and The Print. Pragya Tiwari is a journalist who has written extensively on politics, identity, policy, and culture and edited publications such as Tehelka, The Big Indian Picture and Vice. She currently works as a policy and culture consultant. Swapan Dasgupta’s recent book Awakening Bharat Mata: The Political Beliefs of the Indian Right draws on a variety of sources to trace the evolution of right-wing thought in India. Citing a spectrum of thinkers and writers, it identifies the significant threads that constitute an ideology that has increasingly gained traction and dominated vote banks across the nation. A spirited conversation that discusses and debates the history and influences that forged the vortex of Hindu nationalism with Dasgupta alongside writers and journalists Hitesh Shankar, Makarand R. Paranjape, Saba Naqvi in conversation with Pragya Tiwari. Presented by Dainik Bhaskar THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL Described as the 'greatest literary show on Earth', the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas. The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access. Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world's greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue. Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur. Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Howard Jacobson and Yan Martel, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer, and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary luminaries including Amish Tripathi, Chima¬manda Ngozi Adichie, Vikram Chandra and Vikram Seth. An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 33 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally. Link to our website: https://www.jaipurliteraturefestival.org Link to Jaipur Literature Festival 2018 sessions: https://bit.ly/3bZZgaD Social media links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JaipurLitFes... Twitter: https://twitter.com/JaipurLitFest/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaipurlitfest/
Kapil Sibal, Pragya Tiwari | Shades of Life | Jaipur Literature Festival
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Kapil Sibal, Pragya Tiwari | Shades of Life | Jaipur Literature Festival

Shades of Life: Kapil Sibal & Pragya Tiwari Kapil Sibal is a member of the Rajya Sabha and a senior Indian National Congress leader. Sibal previously held the positions of Union Law Minister, Union Telecom Minister and Union Minister for HRD in the UPA I & II Governments. He was also Minister for Science and Technology.A lawyer by profession, Sibal is also a poet and writer. Books: Shades of Truth: A Journey Derailed, I Witness: Partial Observations Pragya Tiwari is a journalist who has written extensively on politics, identity, policy, and culture and edited publications such as Tehelka, The Big Indian Picture and Vice. She currently works as a policy and culture consultant. Shades of Life Lawyer and politician Kapil Sibal speaks of life and learnings in the context of his long career and commitment to the political life. His recent best selling book Shades of Truth reflects on contemporary concerns and differing approaches to sectors and subjects as diverse as interpreting the law, aspects of telecom policy, education and science and technology. In conversation with writer and editor Pragya Tiwari, he speaks of his poetry and his convictions and his take on present problems and the challenges of the future. Presented by Patrika Game Changer Series THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL Described as the 'greatest literary show on Earth', the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas. The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access. Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world's greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue. Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur. Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Beatty and Yan Martel, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer, Benjamin Moser, Colson Whitehead and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary luminaries including Amish Tripathi, Chima¬manda Ngozi Adichie, Vikram Chandra and Vikram Seth. An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 33 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally. Link to our website: https://www.jaipurliteraturefestival.org Link to Jaipur Literature Festival 2019 sessions: https://bit.ly/31bmftK Links to the other session by Pragya Tiwari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ0fnLUo45o&t=102s Social media links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JaipurLitFest/?fref=ts Twitter: https://twitter.com/JaipurLitFest/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaipurlitfest/
Yatindra Mishra, Pragya Tiwari | Sheharnama Faizabad: Tales of a City | Jaipur Literature Festival
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Yatindra Mishra, Pragya Tiwari | Sheharnama Faizabad: Tales of a City | Jaipur Literature Festival

Sheharnama Faizabad: Tales of a City: Yatindra Mishra & Pragya Tiwari Yatindra Mishra is a celebrated Hindi poet, music and cinema scholar. He has four collections of Hindi poetry, several books on Indian classical music and cinema and translations. Awards: Raza Award (2007), the Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Yuva Puraskar (2006), the Hemant Smriti Kavita Sammaan (2005), the Bharat Bhushan Agarwal Smriti Puraskar(2004), Rajiv Gandhi Raashtriya Ekta Award (2004)and the Rituraj Sammaan (1999), National Film Award for best writing on Cinema (Swarna Kamal) (2017), MAMI Mumbai Film festival award for best writing in cinema (2017) Bestselling/ popular Books: Lata: Sur-Gatha, Akhtari: Soz Aur Saaz Ka Afsana Pragya Tiwari is a journalist who has written extensively on politics, identity, policy, and culture and edited publications such as Tehelka, The Big Indian Picture and Vice. She currently works as a policy and culture consultant. Sheharnama Faizabad: Tales of a City It was recently announced that the historic city of Faizabad will be renamed Ayodhya. Situated on the banks of the Saryu river, it was the first capital of the nawabs of Awadh. Yatindra Mishra’s Sheharnama Faizabad evokes its culture and history while his new book, Akhtari, is about the life and times of the immortal singer Begum Akhtar, who was also the court poet of the royal house of Faizabad. In conversation with Pragya Tiwari, who has written movingly on Ayodhya and has childhood associations with Faizabad and its environs. A meditation on time, place and history and the converging identities of cities and cultural sites. THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL Described as the 'greatest literary show on Earth', the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas. The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access. Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world's greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue. Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur. Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Beatty and Yan Martel, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer, Benjamin Moser, Colson Whitehead and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary luminaries including Amish Tripathi, Chima¬manda Ngozi Adichie, Vikram Chandra and Vikram Seth. An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 33 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally. Link to our website: https://www.jaipurliteraturefestival.org Link to Jaipur Literature Festival 2019 sessions: https://bit.ly/31bmftK Links to the other session by Yatindra Mishra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac-tcx-FTAk&t=68s Links to the other session by Pragya Tiwari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNHH2F5aSTg&t=69s Social media links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JaipurLitFest/?fref=ts Twitter: https://twitter.com/JaipurLitFest/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaipurlitfest/
Simar Singh, Sohaila Abdulali, Sunita Toor, Pragya Tiwari | Jaipur Literature Festival
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Simar Singh, Sohaila Abdulali, Sunita Toor, Pragya Tiwari | Jaipur Literature Festival

The Shape of Justice: Identifying Gender Violence and Finding Solutions That Fit: Simar Singh, Sohaila Abdulali, Sunita Toor & Pragya Tiwari Simar Singh is the 18-year-old student founder of UnErase Poetry, a platform for promoting spoken word artists in India. Singh is a spoken word poet himself and has received critical acknowledgement for his poems, ‘How To Be A Man’, ‘The Legal Rapist’ and ‘Dear Religious Extrovert’. His poems are rebellious and question the status quo between genders in society and thus bringing up issues that are usually brushed aside. Sohaila Abdulali has published two novels, The Madwoman of Jogare and Year of the Tiger, three children’s books, short stories and many non-fiction pieces. Her recent book is What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape. Sunita Toor is an academic and women’s rights activist on a mission to end violence against all women and girls. She leads Justice For Her, a project committed to improving access to justice for female victims of violence in India by working with the police and the communities they serve. Her work has combined academic research, activism, advocacy, journalism and spoken word to raise awareness of gender-based violence in India and highlight the importance of working together to combat it. Pragya Tiwari is a journalist who has written extensively on politics, identity, policy, and culture and edited publications such as Tehelka, The Big Indian Picture and Vice. She currently works as a policy and culture consultant. The Shape of Justice: Identifying Gender Violence and Finding Solutions That Fit At the heart of the urgent conversations on violence against women is the need to shape an idea of justice that is cognisant of the innumerable forms that violence takes and the socio-cultural realities of survivors across the globe. A session that discusses how we can learn to identify, discuss and counter violence against women in all its manifestations. THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL Described as the 'greatest literary show on Earth', the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas. The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access. Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world's greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue. Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur. Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Beatty and Yan Martel, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer, Benjamin Moser, Colson Whitehead and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary luminaries including Amish Tripathi, Chima¬manda Ngozi Adichie, Vikram Chandra and Vikram Seth. An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 33 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally. Link to our website: https://www.jaipurliteraturefestival.org Link to Jaipur Literature Festival 2019 sessions: https://bit.ly/31bmftK Links to the other session by Simar Singh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjDZctGgT70 Links to the other session by Sohaila Abdulali: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YxBeM2ifyo Links to the other session by Pragya Tiwari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvq2MeAj5Ek&t=88s Social media links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JaipurLitFest/?fref=ts Twitter: https://twitter.com/JaipurLitFest/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaipurlitfest/
Upamanyu Chatterjee, Pragya Tiwari | The Revenge of the Non Vegetarian | Jaipur Literature Festival
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Upamanyu Chatterjee, Pragya Tiwari | The Revenge of the Non Vegetarian | Jaipur Literature Festival

The Revenge of the Non Vegetarian: Upamanyu Chatterjee & Pragya Tiwari Upamanyu Chatterjee is a former civil servant who has spent over 30 calm and undistinguished years in the Indian Administrative Service. During that time, he wrote six novels—when no one was looking. He retired (early and honourably) in 2016 to devote himself full time to running the household. Bestselling/ Popular Books: English, August: An Indian Story, The Mammaries of the Welfare State Pragya Tiwari is a journalist who has written extensively on politics, identity, policy, and culture and edited publications such as Tehelka, The Big Indian Picture and Vice. She currently works as a policy and culture consultant. The Revenge of the Non Vegetarian Writer and retired bureaucrat Upamanyu Chatterjee can be savagely funny, outrageously provocative and scaldingly accurate in his prognosis of the human condition. The acclaimed author of English, August speaks of and reads from his recent novella The Revenge of the Non Vegetarian, which demolishes several holy cows with frugal irreverence. In conversation with journalist and development policy consultant Pragya Tiwari, he discusses his craft, his convictions and the black humour that is his trademark. Presented by Mathrubhumi THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL Described as the 'greatest literary show on Earth', the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas. The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access. Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world's greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue. Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur. Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Beatty and Yan Martel, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer, Benjamin Moser, Colson Whitehead and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary luminaries including Amish Tripathi, Chima¬manda Ngozi Adichie, Vikram Chandra and Vikram Seth. An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 33 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally. Link to our website: https://www.jaipurliteraturefestival.org Link to Jaipur Literature Festival 2019 sessions: https://bit.ly/31bmftK Links to other session by Pragya Tiwari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNHH2F5aSTg&t=69s Social media links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JaipurLitFest/?fref=ts Twitter: https://twitter.com/JaipurLitFest/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaipurlitfest/ #festival #jaipurliteraturefestival #jaipur_lit_fest #literature #literaturefestival #jaipurliteraturefestival2019 #jlf2019
Alka Pande, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Hitesh Shankar, Makarand Paranjape, Pragya Tiwari
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Alka Pande, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Hitesh Shankar, Makarand Paranjape, Pragya Tiwari

Samskara: The Intangibles: Alka Pande, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Hitesh Shankar, Makarand Paranjape & Pragya Tiwari Alka Pande is an art historian and curator with two post-graduation degrees one in history and the second in history of art. Followed by a PhD in Art History and a Post-Doc in Critical Art Theory, University of London. She has authored numerous books and curated many national and international exhibitions. She is Recipient of the Charles Wallace Award, Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by French government, Australian-India Council Special Award, L’Oreal Paris Femina Women award and Amrita Sher-Gil Samman. Currently, Dr. Pande is a consultant art advisor and curator of the Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Arundhathi Subramaniam is the award-winning author of eleven books of poetry and prose. Described as ‘one of the finest poets writing in India today’, her recent volume, When God is a Traveller, won the inaugural Khushwant Singh Award, was selected as the Season Choice of the Poetry Book Society and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Hitesh Shankar is a media professional with two decades in the industry. He has worked with a number of reputed media houses such as Dainik Jagran, India Today and Hindustan Times Media Ltd. He has also worked on award-winning international documentaries and wildlife shows. Shankar is currently a member of various national level government committees for central policies, academics and Indian language promotion. Makarand Paranjape is Professor of English at the Centre at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His recent books are: Cultural Politics in Modern India: Postcolonial Prospects, Colourful Cosmopolitanism, Global Proximities, The Death and Afterlife of Mahatma Gandhi and Making India: Colonialism, National Culture, and the Afterlife of Indian English Authority. Apart from books in criticism, Makarand has published six poetry collections and works of fiction. Among his latest creative writing publications are: Transit Passenger/Passageiro em Transito and the novel, Body Offering. His edited books include Swami Vivekananada: A Contemporary Reader and Healing Across Boundaries: Biomedicine and Alternative Therapeutics. Makarand was the Inaugural DAAD Global South Visiting Fellow and Erich Auerbach Visiting Professor in World Literature, University of Tuebingen, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Inaugural ICCR Chair in Indian Studies, South Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore, CAPES Visiting Professor, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil and Shivdasani Visiting Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, University of Oxford. Makarand is also a columnist for Swarajya, DNA and Mail Today. Pragya Tiwari is a journalist who has written extensively on politics, identity, policy, and culture and edited publications such as Tehelka, The Big Indian Picture and Vice. She currently works as a policy and culture consultant. Samskara: The Intangibles 'Samskara' is an untranslatable Sanskrit word that can mean different things to different people. It encapsulates intangible ideas of customs, ritual, upbringing and concepts of individual belief. A session that explores the psychological impact and conditioning of 'Samskaras' and the tangled webs of identity that they involve as well how they play out in a diverse and plural contemporary world. Followed by the unwrapping of Makarand Paranjape's book. THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL Described as the 'greatest literary show on Earth', the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas. The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world's greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue. Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur. The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 33 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally. Link to our website: https://www.jaipurliteraturefestival.org Link to Jaipur Literature Festival 2018 sessions: https://bit.ly/3bZZgaD Social media links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JaipurLitFes... Twitter: https://twitter.com/JaipurLitFest/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaipurlitfest/