Jaipur Bytes

Namita Gokhale ( founder and co-director of the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival ) in conversation with Lakshya Datta ( host of Jaipur Bytes and founder of Launchora ). Namita shares her favorite moments from the festival in Jaipur this past January, why she believes all writers - young and old - need to be readers first, how she curates the international JLF festivals and their programming, and wha...

William Dalrymple (historian, art historian, and co-director of the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival)  in conversation with Lakshya Datta (host of Jaipur Bytes podcast and founder of Launchora). William talks about how he helped create JLF all those years ago, what he thought of #ZEEJLF2019 (the first one he couldn't attend), how he finds authors and speakers from around the world to bring to t...

Assa Doron, Sanchaita Gajapati in conversation with Robin Jeffrey. This episode is a live session from day 5 of #ZEEJLF2019.

Jon Lee Anderson, Peter Bergen and Steve Coll in conversation with Navtej Sarna. The growth of India, China, Brazil, Russia and Africa is generating a new landscape. The tallest buildings, biggest dams, highest-grossing movies and most advanced mobile phones are now all being made outside Europe and the United States. Regions that previously lacked political confidence and national pride are findi...

Akhil Katyal, Geetanjali Sree, Neelesh Misra, Pravin Kumar, Rakhshanda Jalil in conversation with Saurabh Dwivedi. This episode is a live session from day 3 of #ZEEJLF2019.

Identifying Gender Violence & Finding Solutions That Fit. Simar Singh, Sohaila Abdulali and Sunita Toor in conversation with Pragya Tiwari. This episode is a live session from day 3 of #ZEEJLF2019.

Amitabh Kant, Dean Nelson and Nishtha Gautam in conversation with John Elliott. A timely conversation on the uniquely Indian concept of ‘jugaad’, the flexible bottom-up strategy of innovation that seems to come so naturally to a resource starved nation. Based on the concept of doing more with less, this approach to frugal engineering and ingenious solutions often helps turn adversity into opportun...

Dominic Asquith, Nikesh Shukla, Rachel Johnson and Sir Roy Strong CH in conversation with James Crabtree. This episode is a live session from day 3 of #ZEEJLF2019.

Darryl Jones, Maja Lunde and Mridula Ramesh in conversation with Marcus Moench. The disruptions of climate change can no longer be ignored. A timely and urgent conversation on perhaps the most crucial issue for our planet that discusses the ingenuity and initiative required to adapt to changing conditions while attempting to reverse their shattering consequences. A panel of distinguished environme...

Sven Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of American History at Harvard University, where he teaches the history of the United States in the nineteenth century, and global history. Patrick French is a biographer and historian, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor for the Public Understanding of the Humanities at Ahmedabad University. This episode is a live session from day 2 of #ZEEJL...

Dhrubo Jyoti, Desraj Kali, Manoranjan Byapari and Sheoraj Singh Bechain in conversation with Harish Trivedi. Transformative Dalit literature has an inspirational role to play in the battle for justice and equity. Iconic writers and journalists who struggled with extreme poverty, prejudice and illiteracy and went on to become highly regarded litterateurs speak of the trajectory of their careers, th...

Information empowers and its role in a democracy is especially critical and definitive. In this important session, social activist Aruna Roy, the power behind the RTI Movement and Harsh Mander, fearless activist, who works with survivors of mass violence and hunger, the homeless and street children, and also the Director of the Centre for Equity Studies, make a passionate plea for the ‘Right to Kn...

Audrey Truschke, Parvati Sharma, and Rana Safvi in conversation with Ira Mukhoty. This episode is a live session from day 3 of #ZEEJLF2019.

Daniel E. Lieberman and David Reich in conversation with Tony Joseph. A session that brings together two of the most highly regarded geneticists and paleoanthropologists of our age. Everyone knows about DNA. It is the essence of our being, influencing who we are and what we pass on to our children. But its information can’t be used without a machine to decode it. The ribosome is that machine. Davi...

Anjum Hasan, Andrew Sean Greer, Jayant Kaikini and Mahesh Rao, moderated by Paul McVeigh. This episode is a live session from day 5 of #ZEEJLF2019.

Boria Majumdar, Rajdeep Sardesai and Shashi Tharoor in conversation with Prayaag Akbar. This episode is a live session from day 2 of #ZEEJLF2019.

Alka Pande, Bulbul Sharma, Devdutt Pattnaik, Pavan K. Varma and Yudit Greenberg in conversation with Malashri Lal, introduced by Namita Gokhale. This episode is a live session from day 1 of #ZEEJLF2019.

Ruby Wax (actress, comedian, mental health campaigner, lecturer, and author of 'How to be Human) in conversation with journalist and poet Jerry Pinto. This episode is a live session from day 1 of #ZEEJLF2019.

Shashi Tharoor, author and Member of Parliament, and Pavan Varma, National General Secretary and National Spokesman of the Janata Dal, in conversation with journalist and anchor at NDTV, Sreenivasan Jain. This episode is a live session from day 2 of #ZEEJLF2019.

Robin Jeffrey and Assa Doran, discuss their book 'Cellphone Nation: How Mobile Phones Have Revolutionized Business, Politics and Ordinary Life in India', with Ravi Agrawal, author of 'India Connected: How the Smartphone is Transforming the World's Largest Democracy', in a conversation moderated by awarding-winning journalist Barkha Dutt. This episode is a live session from day 3 of #ZEEJLF2019.

Colson Whitehead, recipient of the MacArthur Genius Fellowship, discusses his 2016 Pulitzer Award-winning novel 'The Underground Railroad' with Kanishk Tharoor.

What did she see? A.J. Finn’s best-selling noir novel, The Woman in the Window, is a gripping and unputdownable psychological thriller currently in development as a major film. In conversation with writer and journalist Amrita Tripathi, Finn (real name: Dan Mallory) speaks of his engagement with the genre of suspense fiction, his literary influences, the impact of Hitchcock on his work and imagina...

In 1970, Germaine Greer published The Female Eunuch, an immediate worldwide bestseller that remains a landmark in the history of the women’s movement. Since then, Greer has published a succession of hard-hitting, often hotly debated and continually surprising books, most recently On Rape, in which she controversially argues that it's time to rethink rape. Centuries of different approaches to rape...

Prolific writer and popular politician Shashi Tharoor has a predilection for long words and telling phrases. His unerring sense of humour lightens up the serious oeuvre of his work which includes a powerful indictment of colonialism, a philosophical appreciation of the Hindu religion and hard-hitting political critiques. In conversation with Mihir Swarup Sharma, he speaks of the personal and the p...

Kapil Sibal, Makarand R. Paranjape, Mihir Swarup Sharma, Sagarika Ghose,  Salman Khurshid, Sonal Mansingh, Hardeep Singh Puri and Vikram Sampath moderated by Sreenivasan Jain. This episode is a live session (the last one!) from day 5 of #ZEEJLF2019.