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ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival 2018

Combined Speaker List

Updated 12.12.27

  1. Aanchal Malhotra
  2. Abeer Y. Hoque
  3. Abhijit Kothari
  4. Abhimanyu Singh Arha
  5. Abhinav Chandrachud
  6. Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
  7. Adam Nicolson
  8. Aditi Maheshwari Goyal
  9. Aditya Arya
  10. Adrian Levy
  11. Adriana Lisboa
  12. Ajoy Bose
  13. Akhil Katyal
  14. Akhil Sharma
  15. Akshay Rathi
  16. Akshaya Routray
  17. Alan Friedman
  18. Alan Rosling
  19. Alexandra Harris
  20. Alexandra Pringle
  21. Alia Malek
  22. Alind Maheshwari
  23. Alka Pande
  24. Aman Nath
  25. Amin Jaffer
  26. Amish
  27. Amita Baviskar
  28. Amitabh Mattoo
  29. Amitava Kumar
  30. Amrita Tripathi
  31. Amy Tan
  32. Anant Vijay
  33. Ananth Padmanabhan
  34. Andrew Quintman
  35. Angela Saini
  36. Anja Aronowsky Cronberg
  37. Anna Funder
  38. Anne Cheng
  39. Annie Montaut
  40. Anosh Irani
  41. Anthony Horowitz
  42. Anu Singh Choudhary
  43. Anuj Bahri
  44. Anurag Kashyap
  45. Arjun Nath
  46. Arpita Das
  47. Arun Maira
  48. Arunava Sinha
  49. Arundhathi Subramaniam
  50. Arvind Singh Ashiya
  51. Ashok Chopra
  52. Ashok Vajpeyi
  53. Ashwin Sanghi
  54. Åsne Seierstad
  55. Atmaprajnananda Saraswati
  56. Avinash Das
  57. Azeem Ibrahim
  58. N. Goswamy
  59. Bachi Karkaria
  60. Benjamin Dix
  61. Bihwadeep Moitra
  62. Brahma Chellaney
  63. Brigitte Uttar Kornetzky
  64. Bulaki Sharma
  65. Raja Mohan
  66. Carin Gerhardsen
  67. Carl W. Ernst
  68. Carlo Pizzati
  69. Caroline Franklin
  70. Cathy Scott-Clark
  71. Cécile Rischmann
  72. Chandan Gowda
  73. Chandrahas Choudhury
  74. Charlie English
  75. Charmaine Craig
  76. Charu Singh
  77. Chika Unigwe
  78. Chinmoy Guha
  79. Chintan Chandrachud
  80. Chitra Mudgal
  81. Christophe Jaffrelot
  82. Christopher de Bellaigue
  83. P. Agrawal
  84. Dan Jones
  85. Daryl Shute
  86. David McWilliams
  87. David Roche
  88. Deep Chand Sankhla
  89. Devyani Bhardwaj
  90. Diarmaid MacCulloch
  91. Diksha Basu
  92. Dipankar Gupta
  93. Dominic Dromgoole
  94. Dorothee Gieux
  95. Elizabeth Chatwin
  96. Era Tak
  97. Esther David
  98. Eurig Salisbury
  99. Faith Singh
  100. Farooq Engineer
  101. Galina Lazareva
  102. Gaurav Solanki
  103. Gerður Kristný Guðjónsdóttir
  104. Giorgio Montefoschi
  105. Glenn Patterson
  106. GR Raghavendra
  107. Greg Sheridan
  108. Gunjan Ahlawat
  109. Gurcharan Das
  110. Gurmehar Kaur
  111. Hamid Karzai
  112. Han Yujoo
  113. Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
  114. Helen Fielding
  115. Hema Maira
  116. Hitesh Shankar
  117. Homi Bhabha
  118. Hugh Thomson
  119. Huib Schippers
  120. Humphrey Hawksley
  121. Ian de Toffoli
  122. Ikram Rajasthani
  123. Ilse Köhler-Rollefson
  124. Indira Peterson
  125. Jairam Ramesh
  126. Janice Pariat
  127. Javed Akhtar
  128. Jayapriya Vasudevan
  129. Jeet Thayil
  130. Jeffrey Gettleman
  131. John Elliott
  132. John Freeman
  133. Josefine Klougart
  134. Joshua Ferris
  135. Jovan Mays
  136. Judy Lief
  137. Julia Donaldson
  138. Juliet Nicolson
  139. Justin Rowlatt
  140. Jyoti
  141. Jyoti Malhotra
  142. Kathy Reichs
  143. Kaya Genç
  144. Keggie Carew
  145. Kelly Falconer
  146. Kiran Nagarkar
  147. Kota Neelima
  148. Kushanava Choudhury
  149. Lathika George
  150. Laxmi Prasad Pant
  151. Leïla Slimani
  152. Léonora Miano
  153. Linda Spalding
  154. Lisa Randall
  155. Lolita Dutta
  156. Lorenzo Angeloni
  157. Lucy Hughes-Hallett
  158. Ma Thida
  159. Madhav Khosla
  160. Maha Khan Phillips
  161. Makarand Paranjape
  162. Malashri Lal
  163. Malcolm Donaldson
  164. Malika V Kashyap
  165. Malvika Singh
  166. Mamang Dai
  167. Manas Saikia
  168. Manisha Chaudhry
  169. Manoj Joshi
  170. Manoranjan Byapari
  171. Manu Joseph
  172. Manu Pillai
  173. Margaret Alva
  174. Margit Walso
  175. Marie Brenner
  176. Marina Warner
  177. Markiyan Kamysh
  178. Markus Dohle
  179. Martin Puchner
  180. Matt Frei
  181. Maya Jasanoff
  182. Maya Mrig
  183. Meeta Pandit
  184. Melizarani T. Selva
  185. Meru Gokhale
  186. Michael Breen
  187. Michael Buckley
  188. Michael Franklin
  189. Michael Ondaatje
  190. Michael Puett
  191. Michael Rezendes
  192. Michael Vatikiotis
  193. Michele Albaret-Maatsch
  194. Mihir Sharma
  195. Milan Vaishnav
  196. Minam Apang
  197. Mini Krishnan
  198. Minna Lindgren
  199. Mira Nair
  200. Mona Zote
  201. Mridula Behari
  202. Mridula Garg
  203. Mridula Nath Chakravorty
  204. Muhammad Yunus
  205. Nadifa Mohamed
  206. Namita Bhandare
  207. Namita Gokhale
  208. Namita Waikar
  209. Nand Bhardwaj
  210. Nandita Das
  211. Nasera Sharma
  212. Nasreen Munni Kabir
  213. Nathalie Handal
  214. Naveen Kishore
  215. Nayantara Sahgal
  216. Nicholas Shakespeare
  217. Nicky Arscott
  218. Nicolas Dejenne
  219. Nicolas Idier
  220. Nikko Odiseos
  221. Nirupam
  222. Norman Ohler
  223. Novy Kapadia
  224. Nupur Paiva
  225. Odd Harald Hauge
  226. Oliver Moystad
  227. Om Thanvi
  228. Sainath
  229. Pankaj Dubey
  230. Pankaj Sekhsaria
  231. Paola Antonelli
  232. Paramita Tripathy
  233. Parismita Singh
  234. Paro Anand
  235. Patrick French
  236. Per J. Andersson
  237. Peter Bergen
  238. Peter Bos
  239. Phejin Konyak
  240. Philip A. Lutgendorf
  241. Philip Norman
  242. Pico Iyer
  243. Pierre Astier
  244. Poonam Surie
  245. Pradip Krishen
  246. Pragya Tiwari
  247. Prajwal Parajuly
  248. Pranay Lal
  249. Prashant Jha
  250. Pratap Bhanu Mehta
  251. Prayaag Akbar
  252. Preeti Gill
  253. Prerna Bindra
  254. Preti Taneja
  255. Priyanka Malhotra
  256. Punam Chadha-Joseph
  257. Puneeta Roy
  258. Punit Misra
  259. Rabih Alameddine
  260. Raghvendra Rawat
  261. Raghvendra Singh
  262. Raja Shehadeh
  263. Rajdeep Sardesai
  264. Rajendra Bora
  265. Rakhshanda Jalil
  266. Ranjana Sengupta
  267. Ravi DC
  268. Ravi Singh
  269. Redmond O’Hanlon
  270. Reena Menaria
  271. Renee Singh
  272. Renu Kaul
  273. Renuka George
  274. Rick Stroud
  275. Rima Hooja
  276. Rita Chowdhury
  277. Rita Kothari
  278. Robert Dessaix
  279. Robert Elgood
  280. Robert Watkins
  281. Rodaan Al Galidi
  282. Rohan Murty
  283. Roly Keating
  284. Rupi Kaur
  285. Sagarika Ghose
  286. Salil Tripathi
  287. Sam Cooney
  288. Sam Miller
  289. Samhita Arni
  290. Sampat Saral
  291. Sampurna Chattarji
  292. Sandip Roy
  293. Sanjoy K. Roy
  294. Sarah Raven
  295. Satabdi Mishra
  296. Satish Gupta
  297. Satya Vyas
  298. Saugata Mukherjee
  299. Saurabh Dwivedi
  300. Sayeeda Leghari
  301. Sethu
  302. Shabana Azmi
  303. Shailesh Bharatwasi
  304. Sharmila Sen
  305. Sharmila Tagore
  306. Shashi Tharoor
  307. Sheela Reddy
  308. Sheila Dikshit
  309. Shelja Sen
  310. Shireen Quadri
  311. Shobhaa De
  312. Shoukat Shoro
  313. Shreyasi Goenka
  314. Shruti Sharma
  315. Shvetha Jaishankar
  316. Shyam Saran
  317. Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
  318. Simon Broughton
  319. Smriti Kiran
  320. Snigdha Poonam
  321. Soha Ali Khan
  322. Sonal Mansingh
  323. Sreenivasan Jain
  324. Stephen Green
  325. Subhash Chandra
  326. Subhro Bandopadhyay
  327. Suchita Malik
  328. Sudeep Chakravarti
  329. Sudha Murty
  330. Sudhanva Deshpande
  331. Sudipti
  332. Sugata Ghosh
  333. Suhasini Haidar
  334. Sujata Prasad
  335. Sujatha Gidla
  336. Sujeev Shakya
  337. Sukhadeo Thorat
  338. Suki Kim
  339. Sunandan Roy Chowdhury
  340. Sunandini Banerjee
  341. Sunita Narain
  342. Surendra Mohan Pathak
  343. Surjit Bhalla
  344. Susan Abulhawa
  345. Suzy Hansen
  346. Swapan Dasgupta
  347. Swati Chaturvedi
  348. Syed Salman Chisty
  349. Tara June Winch
  350. TCA Raghavan
  351. Tenzing Lamsang
  352. Terri-Ann White
  353. Tishani Doshi
  354. Tom Miller
  355. Tom Stoppard
  356. Tracey Spicer
  357. Tridip Suhrud
  358. Uday S. Kulkarni
  359. Upinder Singh
  360. Vanamala Viswanatha
  361. Vani Tripathi
  362. Veena Nagpal
  363. Victor Mallet
  364. Victor Sebestyen
  365. Victoria Lautman
  366. Vikas Singh
  367. Vikrant Pande
  368. Vimlesh Sharma
  369. Vineet Bajpai
  370. Vineet Kumar
  371. Vinod Bhardwaj
  372. Vir Sanghvi
  373. Vishal Bhardwaj
  374. Vivek Shanbhag
  375. Wendy Were
  376. William Dalrymple
  377. Yash Goyal
  378. Yasmine El Rashidi
  379. Yatindra Mishra
  380. Yotam Ottolenghi
  381. Zac O’Yeah
  382. Zakir Hussain

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About the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival 2018

Described as the ‘greatest literary show on Earth’ and the ‘Kumbh of literature’, the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas.

The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million booklovers from across India and the globe.

The Festival’s core values remain unchanged; to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access.

Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world’s greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue.

Writers and Festival Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple invite speakers to take part in the five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan’s stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur.

The Festival showcases a range of voices from India and abroad.

Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates J.M. Coetzee, Orhan Pamuk and Wole Soyinka, Man Booker Prize winners Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood and Paul Beatty, Sahitya Akademi winners Girish Karnad, Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary superstars including Amish Tripathi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Vikram Seth. An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry and Thomas Piketty.

The ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces it along with over 25 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally.

In 2014, the Festival spread its wings beyond the borders of India with an annual summer event in London. In 2015, it headed across the pond to Boulder, Colorado where it hosts a similar event every September.

Website: www.jaipurliteraturefestival.org

 

About Teamwork Arts

For over 25 years, Teamwork Arts has taken India to the world and brought the world to India.

In countries such as Australia, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Israel, Korea, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, UK and USA, Teamwork produces over 25 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities.

Teamwork Arts produces one of the world’s largest literary gatherings, the annual ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival, the Ishara International Puppet Festival and the annual Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META) and Festival in New Delhi, international festivals Shared History in South Africa, Eye on India in the United States of America, India by the Bay in Hong Kong, Confluence – Festival of India in Australia,  India@70 2017: Year of Culture in the United Kingdom, and many more.

Website: www.teamworkarts.com

 

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