Judges Kamila Shamsie, Rohini Mohan and Margaret Mascarenhas will announce the winner in November.
Snippets from the eighth Jaipur Literature Festival.
A string of film celebrities like Waheeda Rahman, Naseeruddin Shah, Girish Karnad among others set to explore the intertwining of cinema with literature at the fest.
The JCB Prize for Literature is worth Rs 25 lakh.
Reticent author Cyrus Mistry on Saturday beat off stiff competition from five other writers to become the fourth winner of the $50,000 DSC prize for South Asian literature for his book "Chronicles of a Corpse Bearer".
The going has never been easy for author Cyrus Mistry, who suffers from a nervous disorder. The reclusive author, who bagged the prestigious South Asian literature award, talks openly to P B Chandra about his illness and how writing has helped him cope with it.
'I do not think that we are showing Hindu humanity and humaneness in the process of the National Register of Citizens.'
One way to begin would be to access the material of our own culture, meaning the literature of India, recommends Aakar Patel.
