Thursday, January 13, 2011

Jaipur

I know! I know! Nothing is decided yet. I only have plane tickets booked. But this is what I plan to gatecrash. Multiple entries at the same time means I haven't made my mind up yet. Please help!

Full schedule at: http://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/program-2011/


  Durbar Hall Mughal Tent Baithak Front Lawns
Day 1        
11-12am


Pamuk & the Art of the Novel
Orhan Pamuk in conversation with Chandrahas Choudhury
Presented by DNA
12-1pm
Woodfinger: A Modern Folktale
Rana Dasgupta in conversation with Tishani Doshi


2.30pm – 3.30pm
Two Nations, Two Narratives
Muneeza Shamsie in conversation with Urvashi Butalia

The Bankers Who Broke the World
Liaquat Ahamed in conversation with Gurcharan Das
3.30-4.30

Books that Made Me
Ahdaf Soueif, Githa Hariharan, James Kelman & Pauline Melville in conversation with Susheila Nasta

5.00-6.00 A Eunuch’s Life
A.Revathi in conversation with Urvashi Butalia
Storyteller-in-Chief
Junot Diaz in conversation with Sonia Faleiro


Day 2        
10.00-11.00
Why Books Matter
John Makinson, Kiran Desai, Patrick French & Sunil Sethi in conversation with Sonia Singh
Presented by British Council


12.00-1.00 The Forum: A Global Exchange of Ideas
Gurcharan Das, Kavery Nambisan & Manjushree Thapa
One Amazing Thing
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni in conversation with Mita Kapur


2.30-3.30

Imaginary Homelands
Ian Jack, Junot Diaz, Kamila Shamsie, Manjushree Thapa & Marina Lewycka in conversation with Chandrahas Choudhury

3.30-4.30

The Inheritance of Books
Kiran Desai in conversation with Jai Arjun Singh

5.00-6.00

Out of West
Kiran Desai & Orhan Pamuk in conversation with Rana Dasgupta
From Courtesans East & West
Katie Hickman & Muzaffar Ali in conversation with William Dalrymple
6.00-7.00 Dhin Tara Junoon
Readings, Recital & Music
Salman Ahmad & Shomshuklla



Day 3        
10.00-11.00


Boys will be Boys
Ruskin Bond in conversation with Ravi Singh
11.00-12.00


AfPAK
Ahmed Rashid, Atiq Rahimi, Jayanta Prasad, Jon Lee Anderson & Rory Stewart in conversation with William Dalrymple
12.00-1.00
India: A Potrait
Patrick French in conversation with Amitava Kumar
Presented by British Council 
Happenings in a Novel
Roma Tearne & Vaiju Naravane
The Crisis of the American Fiction
Jay McInerney, Junot Diaz & Richard Ford in conversation with Martin Amis
Presented by DNA 
2.30-3.30 Possibility of Laughter
Marina Lewycka & Zac O’Yeah


Readings from Coetzee
J.M.Coetzee
Introduced by Patrick French
Presented by Times of India
3.30-4.30



5.00-6.00


Kashmir Kashmir
Basharat Peer, M.J.Akbar, Mirza Waheed, Nitasha Kaul, Rahul Pandita & Swapan Dasgupta
Presented by Goldman Sachs Public Affairs Series 
Day 4        
10.00-11.00
Popcorn Essayists
Anjum Hasan, Jaishree Mishra, Kamila Shamsie & Namita Gokhale in conversation with Jai Arjun Singh
Mumbai Narrative
Gyan Prakash & Sonia Faleiro in conversation with Marie Brenner
Half a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Adichie
Introduced by Jasbir Jain
Presented by Counselage 
11.00-12.00
Indian Summer
Alex von Tunzelmann in conversation with Karan Thapar
Presented by British Council 

The Alchemy of Writing: Truth, Fiction & the Challenge of India
Tarun Tejpal in conversation with Manu Joseph
12.00-1.00
The Forum: A Global Exchange of Ideas
Abha Dawesar, Dayanita Singh & Jaishree Mishra
Presented by BB
Pulp
Faiza S.Khan & Pritham Chakravarthy in conversation with Namita Gokhale

2.30-3.30
A Winter on the Nile
Anthony Sattin in conversation with William Dalrymple


3.30-4.30

Word, Image, Text
Dayanita Singh & Sarnath Banerjee in conversation with Rupika Chawla

5.00-6.00


Sex & the City
Candace Bushnell
Introduced by Ira Trivedi
6.00-7.00 Open to All: Take part in Jaipur’s first open-mic session!
(Say/Do/Perform/Recite in 2 minutes)



Day 5        
10.00-11.00 Stranger than Fiction
Arthur Miller in conversation with Abha Dawesar
Presented by ICCR


The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid in conversation with Shoma Chaudhury
11.00-12.00


Writings the 1980s
Martin Amis & Jay McInerney in conversation with Nilanjana Roy
Presented by DNA
12.00-1.00


Descent into Chaos
Ahmed Rashid in conversation with William Dalrymple
2.30-3.30 The Companies
Christopher Bayly, Gyan Prakash & James Mather in conversation with William Dalrymple
Sudhir Mulji Memorial Lecture



3.30-4.30

Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh
Introduced by Jeet Thayil
Presented by British Council
A Suitable Book
Vikram Seth in conversation with Somnath Batabyal
Presented by Counselage
5.00-6.00  Society Has the Total Right To Know (Debate)
Freedom of Expression is a dangerous illusion, not an accessible reality
Chaired by John Gordon
Presented by Intelligence Squared Asia
 


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