Thursday, January 27, 2011
  • Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz at the 2011 DSC Jaipur Literature Festival
    Photo by Bharat Sikka

  • Indian author Inder Dan Ratnu with his novel First Lady President at the 2011 DSC Jaipur Literary Festival
    Photo by Bharat Sikka

  • Tarun J. Tejpal's novel The Story of My Assassins
    Photo by Bharat Sikka, 2011

  • Tarun J. Tejpal, author and founder of Tehelka magazine, at the 2011 DSC Jaipur Literature Festival
    Photo by Bharat Sikka

  • The audience listens to a talk by Nobel Prize-winning South African writer J.M. Coetzee, at the 2011 DSC Jaipur Literature Festival
    Photo by Bharat Sikka

  • Pulitzer Prize-winning American Novelist Richard Ford at the 2011 DSC Jaipur Literature Festival
    Photo by Bharat Sikka

  • Gulzar, the renowned Indian poet, lyricist and director, at the 2011 DSC Jaipur Literature Festival
    Photo by Bharat Sikka

  • Schedule for the speakers' sessions at the 2011 DSC Jaipur Literature Festival
    Photo by Bharat Sikka

  • A guest at the 2011 DSC Jaipur Literature Festival
    Photo by Bharat Sikka

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Jaipur Literature Festival
Celebrity Writers Jay McInerney, Martin Amis and More Pilgrimage to the Pink City
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Jaipur Literature Festival

Celebrity Writers Jay McInerney, Martin Amis and More Pilgrimage to the Pink City

Under swags of rainbow-hued chiffon, Mughal tents and unbridled sunshine, an international array of literary stars gathered for the sixth DSC Jaipur Literature Festival. Junot Diaz, Candace Bushnell and Nobel laureates Orhan Pamuk and J.M. Coetzee were among the 50,000 to attend the five-day celebration this month at the Pink City’s Diggi Palace, a haveli-style mansion dating back to the 1860s. The packed program touched on everything from contemporary politics to industry insider jokes, with Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh undermining his trademark grit by revealing that he enjoys “gardening, Jane Austen and George Eliot,” and Martin Amis teasing novelist Jay McInerney for describing cocaine as a metaphor: “You were just snorting a metaphor, were you?” As the moon rose each night on the proceedings, attendees enjoyed Indian food at communal tables set on the palace’s elegant lawns, with strains of Rajasthani folk music providing the soundtrack. “The festival is a showcase to the world,” says British writer and historian William Dalrymple, the event’s founder. “It's an incredibly rich scene.” Photographer Bharat Sikka was there to capture the cultural mosaic for NOWNESS in the series of photos above.


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