The Jaipur Literary Festival will return to Houston on September 15th, including Mira Nair, and will Investigate Ukraine's Conflict and Cosmology

Discover the Jaipur Literary Festival in Houston, showcasing esteemed writers like Mira Nair. A global literary event happening from September 15th to September 17th.

on Sep 15, 2023

The Jaipur Literary Festival will return to Houston on September 15th, including Mira Nair, and will Investigate Ukraine's Conflict and Cosmology | Frontlist

The Jaipur Literary Festival, which will take place in Houston, will feature renowned writers and experts such as Mira Nair.

This year's Jaipur Literary Festival will be held in Houston, and it will feature a number of prominent writers, analysts, and researchers, including award-winning filmmaker Mira Nair. The JLF festival, widely regarded as one of the best literary events in the world, will take place in Houston from September 15 to September 17.

Following two successful virtual editions in collaboration with the Consulate General of India in Houston, Asia Society Texas Centre, and Inprint, the festival successfully held the first hybrid edition of JLF Houston in 2022, its third destination in North America after New York and Colorado.

The festival will begin with a session titled 'Ukraine: The Cost of War,' which will focus on the realities of conflict reporting and how the nature of war affects writing.

Tetyana Dzyadevych, a researcher, commentator, and analyst of contemporary Ukrainian and Russian culture and literature; Oksana Lutsyshyna, the Lviv City of Literature UNESCO Prize recipient and a Ukrainian author and poet; and Anjan Sundaram, an award-winning author, journalist, and television presenter, will be on the panel.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, a celebrated author who recently published her novel "Independence," a powerful narrative about the Partition of the Indian Subcontinent, decolonization, and sisterhood, will be in conversation with author Tayyba Maya Kanwal, winner of the Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize, at a session examining the human cost of "independence" in the face of the interlinked cultural identities of Bengal and Bangladesh and the devastating consequences of the Partition

Priyamvada Natarajan, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Yale University and cosmologist neck-deep in the mysteries of the cosmos, will discuss the 'best hits' of cosmological discoveries during the last century.

She is the bestselling author of "Mapping the Heavens: Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmo."

The festival will also include a session that investigates the rationale for book bans across timescapes and social geographies, as well as their survival in the face of obliteration.

Parini Shroff, practising attorney and author of "The Bandit Queens," and Aruni Kashyap, scholar and author of "His Disease: Stories and The House with a Thousand Stories," will speak with Festival Co-Director and writer Namita Gokhale in another session.

Shroff and Kashyap will talk about polyphonic voices, plurality of identity, and a sense of belonging in stories and poems written by South Asian writers in the United States.

JLF had enriching sessions in New York on September 12 and 13 with luminaries such as Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Vijay Sheshadri, Mathematician and novelist Manil Suri, and Sahitya Academy Award-winning poet and author Arundhati Subramaniam, among others, before heading to Houston.

Following JLG Houston, the ninth edition of JLF Boulder Colorado will take place from September 21 to September 23.