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The Jaipur Literature festival is in its sixth year and has become a highly regarded phenomenon in India and internationally. Here are some of the crowds listening to Orhan Pamuk, Turkish Nobel prize winner
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Khaldoon interviewed poet Arundhathi Subramaniam. She spoke about how Urdu, a literary language with its golden age in the late 19th and early 20th Century, still maintained a living presence in contemporary Indian writing
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Javed Akhtar spoke in a session on ‘Urdu Zubaan’ (Urdu language). He is Bollywood’s foremost lyricist and poet in his own right
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Jaipur is not only a city of forts and palaces but a bustling metropolis of five million people
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Khaldoon with leading Hindi writer Mridula Garg who was attending the festival with her recent novel 'Miljul man'
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Priya Sarukkai Chabria talked about translating texts from ancient Indian languages Sanskrit and Prakrit and how her own poetry was inflected with this process
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Priya Sarukkai Chabria was interviewed by Khaldoon and read from her poetry book ‘Not Springtime Yet’