Kom will talk with the journalist and writer Amrita Tripathi about growing up amid strife, the struggle to become a boxer and how she carved out a place for herself in a male-dominated Born to landlessĪgricultural laborers, Ms. – The Indian boxer and Olympic bronze medalist Mary Kom will talk about growing up in the conflict-torn northeastern state of Manipur on Tuesday at 11:15 a.m. His provocative novel shot up the best-seller lists in the United States after he had an interview with Fox News,ĭuring which the reporter asked him how a Muslim could write a book about Jesus Christ. Wilson, author of “Jesus,” on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. – Reza Aslan, a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, will discuss his book “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” withĪ.N. Of his book “Magnificent Delusions,” – with Robert Blackwill, America’s former ambassador to India, and the former Indian diplomat Shyam Saran on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. – Husain Haqqani, the former ambassador of Pakistan to the United States of America, will discuss the relationship between the United States and Pakistan – the subject – The British historian Antony Beevor, author of “D-Day,” “Stalingrad,” “Berlin” and “The Second World War,” will talkĪbout the global repercussions of the war on Friday at 5 p.m., its literature on Sunday 2:15 p.m., and the renaissance of nonfiction literature on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. Sensuality and religion, on Saturday at 2:15 p.m. – The art historians Naman Ahuja and Vidya Dehejia will be part of a panel discussion on “how the sacred can be sensuous,” focusing on the intersection between
– Gloria Steinem, the feminist writer and activist, will talk about the feminist movement and the different interpretations of feminism around the world with the activist Ruchira
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Mehta, whoseīooks include a 12 volume autobiographical series titled “Continents of Exile,” will also be part of a panel discussion on writing memoirs on Sunday at 10 a.m. – Ved Mehta, one of the earliest Indian writers in English, will discuss his oeuvre of 27 books with the journalist Samanth Subramanian on Friday at 12:30 p.m. and will also talk about her books in another session with Rupleena Bose,Īn English professor at Delhi University, on Saturday at 2:15 p.m. She’ll be part of a panel discussion on the global novel with Mr. – Jhumpa Lahiri, the Pulitzer-prize winning author of “The Interpreter of Maladies,” “The Namesake” and “Unaccustomed Earth,” makes The beginning of President Obama’s administration.
Franzen is the author of “TheĬorrections,” a novel about a dysfunctional Midwestern American family, as well as “Freedom,” a book about troubled relationships in a family that spans the last years of the 20th century and – Jonathan Franzen, the American novelist, talks about his books with the literary critic Chandrahas Choudhury on Friday at 11:15 a.m. by the Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, who will also talk about the workings of democracyĪnd human freedoms with John Makinson, chairman of Penguin Random House, in another session later that day at 2:15 p.m. – The festival starts with an inaugural keynote address on Friday at 10 a.m. Over the course of five days, celebrated writers from India and abroad will talk about not just theirīooks but also about the two World Wars, Afghanistan after the withdrawal of American troops, Himalayan languages and the making of modern China. The 2014 Jaipur Literature Festival, now in its ninth edition, kicks off in the state capital of Rajasthan on Friday. Author Jhumpa Lahiri with her book 'The Lowland' at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London on Oct.
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