Writer, politician, and public intellectual Shashi Tharoor explores the changing interpretations of nationalism, patriotism, citizenship, and belonging, as well as the nature and future of nationhood. In an important conversation with journalist Pragya Tiwari, he discusses the concept of belonging in the context of nationhood. #festival #jaipur_lit_fest #jaipurliteraturefestival #jlf2021 #jaipurliteraturefestival2021 #literature #literaturefestival #jlfcolorado2020

Sunil Khilnani in conversation with Pragya Tiwari

As millions of Indian citizens trudge home, braving every vicissitude with courage and fortitude, Barkha Dutt examines their wrenching journeys and the human tragedy therein, in conversation with journalist Pragya Tiwari, on JLF Brave New World.

Here’s a snippet of ‘Waste of a Nation’ - Robin Jeffrey and Katherine Boo in conversation with Pragya Tiwari at #ZEEJLFatBL2018! Catch sessions like these and many more at #ZEEJLFatBL2019 set to take place at the British Library in London on 14-16 June 2019! Visit www.jlflitfest.com for a full list of speakers! Book your tickets now! #festival #jaipurliteraturefestival #jaipur_lit_fest #literature #literaturefestival #jaipurliteraturefestival2019 #jlf2019

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/

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/

Ginsberg and the Beat Generation: Anne Waldman and Kunga Tenzin Dorji in conversation with Pragya Tiwari

Avirook Sen and Samanth Subramanian in conversation with Pragya Tiwari introduced by Homi K. Bhabha The Indian Quarterly Presents the Privacy Series

Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Ravikant, Shobhaa De and Christophe Jaffrelot in conversation with Pragya Tiwari Amway Presents Navigating Modernity Series

Kanza Javed and Abeer Y. Hoque, introduced by Pragya Tiwari

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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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

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/

Anabel Loyd and Timothy Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound in conversation with Pragya Tiwari

Shashi Tharoor in conversation with Pragya Tiwari. #festival #jaipurliteraturefestival #jaipur_lit_fest #literature #literaturefestival #jaipurliteraturefestival2019 #jlf2019

David Levy, Irving Finkel, and Michael Erdman in conversation with Pragya Tiwari Presented by Bagri Foundation #hieroglyphs #ancienthistory #jaipurliteraturefestival