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Literati bigwigs to grace Jaipur Literature Festival 2023; highlights here

Jaipur Literature Fest: The world’s largest literature festival ‘JLF’ is once again ready to spread its aura in Jaipur. After the Corona period, the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) is being organized once again offline. Although this time the venue will be changed. The JLF, which is being held at Diggi Palace on Tonk Road till […]

Edited By : Divya Richa | Updated: Feb 3, 2023 14:11 IST
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Jaipur Literature Fest: The world’s largest literature festival ‘JLF’ is once again ready to spread its aura in Jaipur. After the Corona period, the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) is being organized once again offline. Although this time the venue will be changed. The JLF, which is being held at Diggi Palace on Tonk Road till now, will be organized this time from January 19 to 23 at Hotel Clarks Amer, JLN Road. In this fair full of literature, music and art, thousands of litterateurs, musicians and film celebrities will come face to face with lakhs of listeners.

288 speakers will participate in Jaipur Literature Fest

21 Indian and 14 international languages will be presented in the 16th edition of the festival. This time 288 speakers will participate in the literary festival. Speakers and panellists include last year’s International Booker Prize winner for ‘Tomb of Sand’ Gitanjali Shree, Gulzar with Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, Shobhaa De, Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhtar, Shashi Tharoor, Aanchal Malhotra, Amish Tripathi Well-known faces like Sudha Murthy, Ashwin Sanghi, filmmaker Onir, Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah and Amarjit Singh Dulat, former special director of the Indian Intelligence Bureau.

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‘Scars of 1947: The Healing’

On January 20, Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Shukla will discuss the book ‘Scars of 1947: The Healing’ at the Mughal tent. Rajeev Shukla in conversation with Navdeep Suri and Kishwer Desai Aanchal Malhotra highlights inspirational stories post Partition. This book of his has been very popular.

Musical sorie

Many musical and cultural programs will also take place during the five days of the literary festival. Bands like Lifafa, Pakshi, Rhythms of India, Kabir Cafe, Shadow and Light, Peter Cat Company will perform. In the morning music there will be musical performances by Sushma Soma, Aditya Prakash, Anirudh Verma, Panega and Sourav Batra Chakraborty.

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First published on: Jan 17, 2023 03:34 PM IST

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