Jaipur Literature Festival 2020 announces programme
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 19-12-2019
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Bruno Macaes, the author of Belt and Road: A Chinese World Order will discuss the ambitions and implications of BRI as it tracks new trade and energy routes, with particular emphasis of its feasibility and implications in India and South Asia in a session with Indian authors Manoj Joshi and Sujeev Shakya in conversation with former Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao. Leading British foreign correspondent Christina Lamb will be in conversation with eminent journalist Suhasini Haidar in a talk about Nujeen who escaped the hell of war in Aleppo and travelled to Europe on a wheelchair.
Prolific and much-awarded author Chitra Mudgal, and author of several award-winning poetry collections and novels Anamika will be in conversation with translator and writer Rohini Choudhury, to discuss their books, beliefs and the core of conviction that sustains their writing in a session titled 'Ek Zameen Apni: Writing the Feminine'.
How does one capture the life of a woman in writing? How different is the feminine biography from that of a man? Biographers Bettany Hughes, Jung Chang, Lindsey Hilsum and Hallie Rubenhold will discuss the difficulty of penning the lives of women in conversation with journalist Anita Anand in a session specifically concentrated on the lives of women.
In another session celebrated actor Madhur Jaffrey, iconic ambassador of Indian cuisine, speaks of her rich, intense full-lived life tracing early years in Delhi, her association with the legendary Ismail Merchant, James Ivory and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, her encounters with the theatre and film, and finally her recent rap video. She will speak of her intertwined lives, of the theatre of food and the flavour of memories. A fascinating session with the 86-year-old actor author in conversation with novelist and essayist, Chandrahas Choudhury.