Modi’s silence on key issues baffling: Tharoor
JAIPUR-- The silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on key issues of communal tension and violence is baffling for a leader who is hailed...
Travel writing may change, but will never die
By Vikas Datta
JAIPUR-- Its demise was predicted as far as back as the 1930s but it endured, and even in our day, despite the...
India at 70, Women and Marginalised Voices among themes for Jaipur Literature Festival
New Delhi-- The ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival 2017 will touch upon a multitude of ideas and themes, its organisers announced here.
These include 'Freedom to...
Writers should stay away from activism: Booker winner Marlon James
By Preetha Nair
JAIPUR--Writers run the risk of didacticism if they turn into activists, says Marlon James, the first Jamacan to win the Booker Prize...
The Peace to End All Peace: Terrifying rise of ethnic nationalism after WW-I
By Vikas Datta
JAIPUR--Nationalism got a fillip in the aftermath of World War I as several empires disintegrated and new nations were born, but an...
Jaipur literature festival is open to all voices, Left and Right: Producer Sanjoy Roy
By Saket Suman
New Delhi-- Dubbed as one of India's greatest such shows, the journey of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) has been marked by...
So-called experts behind all problems, don’t trust them: Uncertainty, randomness guru
By Vikas Datta
Jaipur-- People would be better of trusting experts like dentists and plumbers, and even rickshaw-pullers rather than economists or bureaucrats, whose incompetence...
