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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

GALAXY

If life brings joy in the shape of ur desired fruit nothing like that but we feel things running around us and we r like a beggar passing through a sweet shop i and the people around me are definitely of the same taste,, more or less,
And i think this year also none of us could spare time to be a part of literature fest Jaipur in which from 21 jan to 25 jan Salman Rushdie, Wole Soyinka, Ian McEwan, Vikram Seth, Simantini Range Raghav, Niall Ferguson, Sheen Kaaf Nizam, Roberto Calasso, Roddy Doyle, Lawrence Wright, UR Ananthamurthy, Kiran Desai, Pico Iyer, Simon Schama, Thomas Keneally, Hanif Kureishi, Vikram Chandra, Steve Coll, Daniyal Mueenuddin, Hari Kunzru, Mohammed Hanif, Girish Karnad, Ashok Vajpeyi, Colin Thubron, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Suketu Mehta, Krishna Baldev Vaid, Andrew O’Hagan, Chitra Mudgal, K.Satchidanandan, Geoff Dyer, Amit Chaudhuri, Fatima Bhutto, Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, Michael Frayn, Stephen Frears, Alexander McCall Smith, Donna Tartt, Tina Brown, Shashi Tharoor, Mohammed Hanif, Paul Zacharia, Uday Prakash, John Berendt, Christopher Hampton, Nadeem Aslam, Prasoon Joshi among many others were present . they talked much about their own creations some of them became storyteller . it was a million doller opportunity to get narration from the writers like them . later or sooner some of them may shine together next year fest and than i will strive hard to see it atleast once in my lifetime
The Jaipur Literature Festival is an annual literary fest taking place in Jaipur since 2006.The Diggi Palace Hotel serves as the main venue of the festival. The Jaipur Literature Festival is the biggest literary festival not just in India, but in Asia, and was described by Miranda Seymour in the Mail on Sunday of the 10th August 2008 as "the grandest literary Festival of them all". It is held each year in Jaipur, Rajasthan during the month of January, usually in the Hall of Audience and gardens of the Diggi Palace in the city centre, and celebrates excellence in Rajasthani, Indian and International writing.
The festival directors are the writers Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple and is produced by Sanjoy Roy of Teamwork Productions. The Festival is an Initiative of the Jaipur Virasat Foundation founded by Faith Singh, originally as a segment of the Jaipur Heritage International Festival in 2006, and developed into a free-standing festival of literature standing on its own feet in 2008. JVF's Community Director Vinod Joshi is its regional advisor. The Jaipur Heritage International Festival is an initiative of the Jaipur Virasat Foundation. All events at the festival are free and not ticketed
so get ready i offer you to book a tour with me for nxt time there will be HUM-TUM and stars

i feel sorry for being so far from my blog for such a long time but u know i am not far from you
sumati

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