Online editions of the “Jaipur Literature Festival” to honour the power of literature globally

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The programming will incorporate themes like the COVID-19 pandemic, crime-writing, climate, poetry, global politics, racial equality and discrimination, entertainment and fiction.

As the world is in its course of grasping the ‘new typical’, the majority of the celebrations all around the world have taken up the computerized course. The intensity of books, thoughts and talk is fundamental, similar to the significance of guaranteeing a free progression of information and data.

So with hardly a pause in between from the eighth till the 29th of November, scholarly enthusiasts in Colorado, Houston, New York and Toronto will find a totally different universe of writing through online editions of the iconic Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF).

Thoughts and visions to be shared on slew of issues

On Monday, JLF producer, Teamwork Arts referenced, “The festivals will bring together an extremely diverse palate of global themes while celebrating the unique culture, diversity, energy and beauty of the host cities, as usual marked by a strong sense of camaraderie, a caravan of ideas, and the magical flow of conversations.”

The programming will incorporate themes like the COVID-19 pandemic, crime-writing, climate, poetry, global politics, racial equality and discrimination, entertainment and fiction.

JLF co-director Namita Gokhale stated, “he challenges of our changing times have led us at JLF to create and curate an incredibly rich and diverse digital platform” that will “as ever, engage with both the local and the global, giving voice to writers, poets and thinkers as they celebrate books, dialogue and debate”.

Teamwork Arts Managing Director, Sanjoy K. Roy likewise expressed, “Literature, ideas and knowledge are at the heart of our every effort to ensure a free flow of knowledge and information, specially in these times.” He further added that between them, the four functions will unite Nobel laureates, Pulitzer, Commonwealth and other honor winning speakers to share their thoughts and vision on a huge number of issues from BLM to the climate, performing poetry to democracy and from music to film.

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