The curtain came down on the Jaipur Literature Festival 2011 on Tuesday with a debate on society’s right to unrestrained freedom of expression that saw celebrated activist Aruna Roy, authors Abha Dawe

The Dalit authors aired their views when they got an audience during the Jaipur Literature Festival and narrated their tales of joy and sorrow. “It is a beginning and is good for us.

I have not done any painting which has hurt the sentiments of the Hindus,” said S.H.

RUSKIN BOND held court on Sunday, Day 3 of the on-going Jaipur Literature Festival 2011.

The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) took Aseemanand into its custody and produced him before a local court in Ajmer on Saturday in connection with blast at the dargah in 2007. The ATS brought Aseemanand from Harayana to Ajmer following the court-issued production warrant for him.

Eminent song-writer Gulzar, who was scheduled to speak on lyrics in cinema at the ongoing literature festival here, had difficulty reaching the venue thanks to the crowd, which also included former chief minister Vasundhara Raje and filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra.

H.M. NAQVI’S genre-busting debut Homeboy won the first DSC Prize for South Asian Literature at a ceremony organised here on Saturday morning. Homeboy, published by HarperCollins, examines the life of Muslims in America in the wake of 9/11 through a rollicking narrative that “blends street slang with literary discourse, pop culture with politics.”

“AS A writer, I am very lazy and slow,” said Kiran Desai, author of the Booker-winning The Inheritance of Loss, on the second day of the on-going DSC Jaipur Literature Festival on Saturday.

A WELL-DECORATED, festooned, expanded and bursting-at-the-seams Diggi Palace threw open its gates to readers, writers and book lovers from around the globe who flocked to the five-day-long DSC Jaipur

The Diggi Palace has decked up to welcome the “who’s who” of literary world and world of music, who are participating in the Jaipur Literature Festival.