Books, Bollywood and barbs: the magic of the Jaipur literature festival
Critics may carp, but stellar lineups, celebrity sightings and swarming crowds make Jaipur the world’s biggest literary event
For a country too often associated with poverty and bad news, the annual Jaipur literature festival is a matter of national pride. Not only because it is officially the world’s largest such gathering, but also because it has earned its place on the global literary map, even with a serious reading public still emerging in India.
Where else in the world could you listen to Weijian Shan, author of Out of the Gobi, recall his childhood during China’s cultural revolution, when Mao urged students to beat their teachers to death? Or learn how the late war correspondent Marie Colvin had to drink Colonel Gaddafi’s guards under the table in order to secure an interview with him? Or hear biographer Benjamin Moser talk about Susan Sontag’s lifelong shame at being gay?
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