Jaipur Literature Festival releases second list of speakers

JAIPUR: Jaipur Literature Festival to be organized from 25-29 January 2018, announced its second list of speakers. A number of Mumbai-based speakers were featured in the second list, including bestselling novelist Amish who will discuss his reinterpretations of ancient mythology, including the enigmatic Sita and the

complex divinity

in Ram, at the 2018 edition of the Festival.

Besides, Ashwin Sanghi, whose work straddles history, philosophy, fantasy and science will shed light on his new book Keepers of the Kalchakra while among the Bollywood stars Soha Ali Khan, a new face at the lit-fest will reveal all about her disarmingly frank memoir as director, writer, producer and actor Anurag Kashyap will speak on his cinematic sensibility and consciousness.

Add to that legendary Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi will discuss their poetic heritage through their respective fathers, Jan Nisar Akhtar and Kaifi Azmi, in a session on the traditions of Urdu literature; author

Kiran Nagarkar

will speak about the ceaselessness of languages and the art of crisscrossing cultural and linguistic landscapes.

Among the international literary stalwarts young readers are set for a treat with the unparalleled Anthony Horowitz, creator of the multi-million selling Alex Rider series, and the refreshing Julia Donaldson whose modern classics, The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, have taken countless children on a splendid journey.

The theoretical physicist Lisa Randall will also feature as part of the programming with a fascinating discussion that challenges the stereotypes of gender; historian, Harvard professor and author of The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World, Maya Jasanoff, discusses the journey of one of the most riveting figures in literary history.

Writers and journalists such as

Peter Bergen

, the author of Manhunt, one of the few to have interviewed Osama bin Laden and the first journalist to gain access into Abbottabad as well as Suki Kim, the only writer ever to have lived undercover in North Korea and the author of New York Times bestselling literary nonfiction Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea’s Elite.

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