Jaipur Bytes

A live session recorded at Jaipur Literature Festival 2022, this is "The Democracy Index" - Madan B Lokur, Guru Prakash Paswan, Navin Chawla, in conversation with V Tankha.

A live session recorded at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2022, this session is "Pure Evil: The Bad Men of Bollywood" - Manoj Bajpayee and Balaji Vittal, in conversation with Pragya Tiwari.

Recorded live at #JaipurLiteratureFestival2022, this session is "Being Remo" - Remo Fernandes in conversation with Sanjoy Roy. 

Recorded live at #JaipurLiteratureFestival2022 - this session is "Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics" - Rukmini S and Lakshmi Puri in conversation with Shailendra Raj Mehta. 

Recorded live at #JaipurLiteratureFestival2022, this session is "Boys Don't Cry" - Meghna Pant in conversation with Lucy Beresford.

Recorded live at #JaipurLiteratureFestival2022, this session is - The Gendered Contagion: Sohaila Abdulali, Pragya Tiwari, Chinmay Tumbe in conversation with Amita Nigam Sahaya, introduced by Gloria Berbena, Minister Counselor for Public Diplomacy, US Embassy India. 

Recorded live at #JaipurLiteratureFestival2022. This episode is the session - River Kings: A New History of Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads. Cat Jarman in conversation with William Dalrymple

Festival Co-Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, and Festival Producer Sanjoy Roy tease what you can expect from the 15th edition of the renowned Jaipur Literature Festival, taking place online and on-ground in Jaipur from March 5 to 14. To register for the festival, visit www.jaipurliteraturefestival.org

Pavan K. Varma in conversation with Makarand R. Paranjape. This episode is part of the Voices of Faith series for JLF Brave New World, presented by the Kamini and Vindi Banga Family Trust.

Amardeep Singh in conversation with Preeti Gill. This episode is part of the Voices of Faith series for JLF Brave New World, presented by the Kamini and Vindi Banga Family Trust.

Noshir Dadrawala and Shernaz Cama in conversation with Dinyar Patel. This episode is part of the Voices of Faith series for JLF Brave New World, presented by the Kamini and Vindi Banga Family Trust.

Diarmaid MacCulloch in conversation with William Dalrymple. This episode is part of the Voices of Faith series for JLF Brave New World, presented by the Kamini and Vindi Banga Family Trust.

Pepita Seth in conversation with Anupama Raju. This episode is part of the Voices of Faith series for JLF Brave New World, presented by the Kamini and Vindi Banga Family Trust.

Syed Salman Chishty in conversation with Rana Safvi. This episode is part of the Voices of Faith series for JLF Brave New World, presented by the Kamini and Vindi Banga Family Trust.

Bill Gates in conversation with Alok Sharma. “It’s easy to feel powerless in the face of a problem as big as climate change. But you’re not powerless. And you don’t have to be a politician or a philanthropist to make a difference.” – Bill Gates In conversation with Alok Sharma, President of the COP26 Climate Conference and former Secretary of State for Business, Bill Gates will set out a wide-rang...

Unfinished is one of the most exciting and inspirational books of the year, following Priyanka Chopra Jonas' journey through life and cinema. The memoir takes readers from her childhood in India, through her formative teenage years in the US, to her return to India where she unexpectedly won the national and global beauty pageants (Miss India and Miss World) that launched her acting career. The re...

Payal Arora, Marcus du Sautoy, Tarun Khanna, Renata Lok-Dessallien, Pragya Sharma and Meredith Broussard moderated by Sanjoy K. Roy. Has technology, with its augmented and extended reality, and the social disengagement of the Pandemic, transformed our perception of the real? Has the virtual world  changed and upended the significance of physical experience? What are the definitions of re...

Celebrated actor Anupam Kher's latest book, Your Best Day is Today, is an enduring narrative that encourages us to take a pause and consider and appreciate the smaller things in life. An amalgamation of experiences, lessons and positive takeaways, the book attempts to present a guide to connect with your inner self in order to cope with these difficult times. In this session Kher delves on the imp...

Vikas Swarup’s thrilling second novel  Six Suspects  is a witty, gripping and masterfully written tale that looks deep within the heart of contemporary India. The internationally bestselling author  Slumdog Millionaire  deftly explores themse of murder, corruption and oppurtunity, through an imaginative and intensive plot, unravelling the lives and motives of the six suspects i...

The digital landscape is perhaps the most exciting space for creative potential today, having transformed long-established modes of consuming, interpreting and interacting with text-based narratives. This is a golden age of entertainment as streaming services constantly evolve, challenging viewer expectations and bringing in new ways in which stories are created, absorbed and shared. In a fascinat...

Avni Doshi’s Booker shortlisted novel  Burnt Sugar,  published as  Girl in White Cotton  in India, is a vivid and unsettling account following the complex relationship between a mother and daughter. Tracing the  fragile line between familial devotion and deception the tale evocatively brings up the subjective nature of truth and the reality of toxic relationships. In...

The seeds of the storming of the Capital were sown, and shown to the world, early in President Trump’s Presidency with his chest-thumping belief in what commentators have called “dangerous” nationalism. Scholar and critical theorist Homi K. Bhabha, a believer in a more benign and inclusive world view, evaluates how you address these actions rooted within the fabric of chaos, discontent and “uncivi...

Douglas Stuart in conversation with Paul McVeigh. Glasgow-born Douglas Stuart’s 2020 Booker prize-winning debut novel  Shuggie Bain  evokes the  essence of addiction, parenthood, courage and love. Following the bond between a son and his mother, fractured by alcoholism, poverty, aspiration and human misery. The novel graphs an intimate, devastating  yet ultimately hop...

Celebrated satirist, critic and writer Craig Brown’s Baillie Gifford Prize winning recent biography  One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time  is a serendipitous retelling of the chance merger of four elemental figures. An enchanting mix of history, autobiography, interviews and fan letters, it brings forth a fitting tribute to a band whose words echo through homes even today. Through a k...

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Priya Atwal have both evoked the spirit of the beautiful Maharani Jindan Kaur through fiction and fact. Kaur was regent of the Sikh Empire from 1843 until 1846.  She was renowned for her energy and strength of purpose with the Governor General Dalhousie writing of her, “She has the only manly understanding in the Punjab”. Divakaruni has previously authored...