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It has been a helluva Day One at the Jaipur Literature Festival. In perhaps what has been one of the most stellar line-up of the festival, rediff.com saw some of the greatest names in literature and journalism walk the grounds of Diggi Palace, the venue of the festival. Abhishek Mande reports.
Rediff.com's Abhishek Mande, who is attending the Jaipur Literature Festival, brings forth all the details of a 'rather slow' Day 2 of the festival.
Cheered on by the audience, authors read out passages from The Satanic Verses on the first day of the Jaipur Literature Festival, reports Abhishek Mande.
At the launch of Khalid Mohamed's latest book, The Aladia Sisters, Karan Johar got Javed Akhtar and Anil Kapoor to reveal a few secrets.
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Dylan is not really a writer and awarding the prize to him in the literature category is a "great insult to all the writers who have already received the award and also to those who rightly deserve it", the author said.
Naipaul's views against the commonplace perception towards colonised countries and their people were not the only thing controversial about the famed author.
Pradeep Sharma, mechanical engineer at the University of Houston, Kavita Ramanan, professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, Dilip Da Cunha, architect, planner and teacher at Harvard University and Columbia University, Mukul Sharma, professor of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth College, and Tahera Qutbuddin, professor of Arabic Literature and Islamic Studies at the University of Chicago, have been awarded the 2020 Guggenheim fellowships.
"It is a bumper harvest this year," Jaipur Literature Festival producer Sanjoy Roy told Rediff.com while describing the spectacular line-up of authors at the grand carnival this year.
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The Indian author was born August 21, 1915.
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Jaipur Literature Festival 2011 Diary: Day One
He was known for his work in Mumbai Dinank, which was his first novel, and the book Simhasan, which was adapted into a Marathi film.
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Rediff.com correspondent Abhishek Mande was attending the Jaipur Literature Festival, considered Asia-Pacific's leading literature event. He shares vignettes of Day 3.
'I don't think anybody would want to be in my position today where every head of State has to be explained that I am prioritising my country because there is a surge in cases.'
'Alkazisaab trained innumerable actors to be good human beings.'
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Karnad, a recipient of Jnanpith Award, was also conferred the Padma Shri in 1974 and the Padma Bhushan in 1992.
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Writer-director Suparn Verma, and Rediff.com correspondent Abhishek Mande are attending the Jaipur Literature Festival, billed as the 'the greatest literary show on earth'.
The JLF has also become one of the most preferred platform to launch new authors and network. It is no surprise then that prominent publishing houses vie for space at the venue. In its 2011 edition, the JLF will see some young and old names gathering again to discuss books, lock horns and back slap each other.Writer-director Suparn Verma, and Rediff.com correspondent Abhishek Mande are at Jaipur attending the festival.
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'I feel I must decline as there is a general election looming and the timing of the award might be misconstrued, causing embarrassment both to the government and myself, which I would much regret,' Gita Mehta said.
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