Day 3 at the Jaipur Literature Festival

After the madness of the day, this was time for some calm. Quite surprisingly, the evening began with a poetry reading by young poetess Tishani Doshi. But this aberration was more than welcomed by the audience, as they sat, mesmerized by Tishani’s recitation, some inspired by Neruda, some anti-love, from her collection, “Everything Begins Elsewhere”.
This was followed by another reading by poet Sudeep Sen, who chose poems about spirituality and the four letter word which rocks everyone’s world, love.
Next to take to the stage was child prodigy Satvik Bhatt, 13, who could identify 45 ragas when he was just three-year-old, and was a Limca Book Record holder for the same. As the shy teenager finished his rendition of “Teri Meri Prem Kahaani” from “Bodyguard” on the synthesizer, he mumbled a ‘thank you’, and much to the audience’s delight, moved on to playing “Kolaveri Di”.
What followed Satvik’s act was a performance by Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, and a jazz performance by Dub Colossus, an Ethiopan band. Their female lead singer, Sintayehu 'Mimi' Zenebe, completely stole the show, with her disarming namaste after every number. At 10pm, when it was time for them to pack up, nobody was willing to stop the revelry, and scores of people kept yelling ‘encore’ even after the performers had said ‘shukre’ about 20 times more and exited the stage.
Upasana Mantri and Kashika Saxena