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Jaipur Literature Festival – Day Five
News and Events / January 27, 2015

The three of us agreed that the crowd was only going to get crazier next year. Booking a bigger venue could be an appropriate solution. That gripe aside, I would like to thank the organisers for a truly fantastic and well-organised festival.A last suggestion, on the behalf of perennially broke students everywhere, is to make the food at the venue more affordable for all.

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Jaipur Literature Festival 2015 – Day Four
News and Events / January 25, 2015

I refuse to believe, after a day spent getting trampled upon, stuck in human jams, elbowed and shoved, that there was a single person in Jaipur who didn’t attend the festival today. The organisers need to take appropriate measures fast to accommodate the growing size of the JLF audience.

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Jaipur Literature Festival 2015 – Day Three
News and Events / January 24, 2015

The sessions filling the first slot seemed largely dull so we milled around, looking at the exorbitantly priced things on sale – books, handicrafts, clothes, food. Our impoverished student status firmly ascertained, we headed to Rajnigandha Front Lawns for a talk titled ‘Wanderlust and the Art of Travel Writing’ with Paul Theroux, Charles Glass, Samanth Subramanian, Sam Miller, Brigid Keenan and William Dalrymple.

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Jaipur Literature Festival 2015 – Day Two
News and Events / January 23, 2015

Picture everyone looking mildly crazed among a riot of green, blue, yellow tents of varying sizes and striding purposefully to communicate changes (due to the unseasonal rain showers) to co-workers and visitors, many clutching their expensive electronics to shield them from water damage. You now have a fairly accurate mental picture of Day 2 of JLF 2015.

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Jaipur Literature Festival 2015 – Day One
News and Events / January 22, 2015

As promised in the account of last year’s Jaipur Literature Festival, I am back here to attend the 2015 installment and faithfully relay all my geeky excitement to IBS readers who aren’t able to do so. With me this year are the same two friends who accompanied me the last time. In the tradition of authorial narcissism, let’s call them Sidekick 1 and Sidekick 2.

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Review: 99 – Unforgettable Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry and Humour by Khushwant Singh
Review / January 21, 2015

Author: Khushwant Singh (Author), David Davidar (Editor), Mala Dayal (Editor)
Publisher: Aleph Books
Year: 2014
ISBN: 9789383064755
Rating: ★★★½☆
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“99” is not a genre-redefining book by any stretch of imagination but it gets its basics correct as an anthology. Couple that with the natural dynamism of Singh’s writing and you get a good bedside companion for many a long winter night.

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Review: A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
Review / January 13, 2015

Author: George R. R. Martin
Publisher: Bantam Books
Year: 1998
ISBN: 9780553381696
Rating: ★★★★½
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After a kingdom starts to fall apart, the second installment of his addictive A Song of Ice and Fire series has author George R. R. Martin getting his characters fighting one another to claim the Iron throne.