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Nandy row: Raj HC stays JLF producer's arrest

Jaipur Literature Festival organisers Tuesday got interim relief from the Rajasthan high court which stayed the arrest of the event producer Sanjoy Roy in connection with author Ashis Nandy's......

'Dalits should forgive Nandy for his vulgar comments'

Although popular Dalit writer and thinker Chandrabhan Prasad feels what Ashis Nandy said at the Jaipur Literature Festival was undignified and vulgar, he tells rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt that the......

'Homefull' authors, housefull scriptwriters at JLF

The Jaipur Literature Festival had hundreds of celebrities in attendance. But for a first-timer reporting on this literary event, the most important celebrity was the audience, says Vaihayasi Pande......

LIVE: Day 4 of the Jaipur Literature Festival

Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel is at the Jaipur Literature Festival. Follow her updates right here! The Jaipur Literature Festival 2013 is underway and Rediff.com's Editorial director......

Filmi charcha, 'sexual privacy' rule Jaipur Litfest Day 2

Bollywood, and the high drama that invariably accompanies it, totally overtook the Jaipur Literature Festival on its second day, reports Vaihayasi Pande Daniel. The filmi duniya and its passionate......

'Energy revolution is America's big comeback story'

How many of us travel with $25 billion in our luggage? Ruchir Sharma, head of the emerging markets equity team at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, New York, certainly does. An economic......

We let our heart rule the head, says Ruchir Sharma

How many of us travel with $25 billion in our luggage? Ruchir Sharma, head of the emerging markets equity team at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, New York, certainly does. An economic......

Travelling with $25 billion in luggage!

How many of us travel with $25 billion in our luggage? Ruchir Sharma, head of the emerging markets equity team at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, New York, certainly does. An economic......

WATCH: Music, poetry and a taste of Jaipur

The recently concluded Jaipur Literature Festival was a delightful experience for many reasons. One of them was a beautiful sarod performance by Amaan and Ayaan Ali Khan. Check it...

Bollywood condemns Salman Rushdie ban

As Rajasthan government persuaded the organizers of Jaipur Literary Festival to ask Salman Rushdie to call off his visit, stars condemned the ban on Twitter.Celina......

Chetan Bhagat: Kai Po Che is better than the book

Chetan Bhagat has been many things in his life -- an IIT and IIM graduate, who spent 11 years as an investment banker in Hong Kong, a best selling author ("the biggest-selling English-language......

Seeing Afghanistan through a different lens

Three teenage girls have made a brief documentary called The Kabul Cards, which shows a much more cheerful side of Afghanisthan's capital, Kabul. It has broken the stereotype of bombed out sites......

'Reluctant Fundamentalist not directly inspired by 9/11'

Mira Nair's latest film, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, is said to be a thriller. Adapted from Mohsin Hamid's international bestseller of the same name, the film set in America and Pakistan is much......

Dravid, Sharmila launch book on late MAK Pataudi

Rahul Dravid and Sharmila Tagore, wife of the late Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, has launched a book on the former India captain titled 'Pataudi: Nawab of Cricket', at the Jaipur Literature Festival in......

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Q. Literature and writing styles of Bodo language?
Sudhakar Kuruvada: A. more

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Q. who is a Hippie.have you ever met/talked with them!
Amol Raikar: A. although the Bodo language is a rich and ancient language, it did not have written literature until the second decade of the twentieth century. The...... more

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Q. Your views about Ashish Nandy's remarks at Jaipur Literature Festival?
Gypsy: A. The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the...... more

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Q. two Pakistani diplomats have been denied permission by GOI to attend the Jaipur Literature Festival. This move threatens to spark fresh acrimony between India and Pakistan (TOI). What have foreign government representatives got to do with literature, anyway?
Vikram: A. apni SHASHI THAROOR friend se puchho :P more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/two-pakistani-diplomats-have-been-denied-permission-by-goi-t/24923808/answers/24961258

Web results for Literature Festival

Reading Week rolled out

District panchayat president Eldhose Kunnappillil said reading alone would help develop a good culture and ensure the social development of the... ...

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/reading-week-rolled-out/article4831077.ece

Javed Akhtar sends last telegrams to grandchildren

Poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar speaks during the session "Bollywood and National Narrative" at Jaipur Literature Festival in Rajasthan. PTI Javed... ...

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Once upon a time in Sandalwood

Actor Ramesh Aravind Sandalwood is experiencing a renewed interest in films that draw from mythology and history. The trend has been picking from... ...

http://newindianexpress.com/entertainment/kannada/Once-upon-a-time-in-Sandalwood/2013/06/19/article1641980.ece

Shaolin temple goes global

The Shaolin Temple, known as the cradle of Chinese kung fu, is preparing to stage its first cultural festival in the US as part of efforts to... ...

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Spinning tales of awe with music

Zila Khan, daughter of sitar maestro Ustad Vilayat Khan, will mesmerise audiences with a generous dose of Sufi Rock on June 22 at DPS Whitefield... ...

http://newindianexpress.com/cities/bangalore/Spinning-tales-of-awe-with-music/2013/06/18/article1639642.ece

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