JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2010

"The Greatest Literary Show On Earth ! ”
21st – 25th January 2010, Diggi Palace
Jaipur

Exclusive Web Coverage : www.patrika.com
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The Jaipur Literature Festival is considered to be Asia’s leading literature event & undoubltely, the biggest completely free festival of literature in the world. It is a celebration of National and International writers and encompasses a range of activities including film, music and theatre.

The festivities continue at the 5th edition of Jaipur Literature Festival as the crowd keep increasing day after day to meet their favourite authors and artists again at Diggi palace.

The festival, which is now in its fifth year, showcased a wonderful mix of talks, panel discussions, lectures and readings by renowned authors from across the globe along with amazing evenings of World music concerts throughout the festival.

The Jaipur Literature Festival, which is rightly acclaimed as"The Greatest Literary Show On Earth”( by Tina Brown, Editor of The Daily Beast), showcased the best of Indian-language and English writing from India, along with hosting a Nobel laureate, a winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, two Booker winners and five winners of the Pulitzer prize for Literature, as well as leading writers from the world of history, biography, literary criticism, and travel, in addition to the stars of the world of fiction and the novel. This year's participating Writers included Hanif Kureishi, Niall Ferguson, Louis De Bernieres, Roberto Calasso, Amit Chaudhuri, Geoff Dyer, Vikram Chandra, Tina Brown, Claire Tomalin, Michael Frayn, Mahasweta Devi, Shobhaa De Indira Goswami, Krishna Sobti, Krishna Baldev Vaid, Steve Coll, Stephen Frears, Pavan Varma, Lawrence Wright, Christophe Jaffrelot, Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuk, and Alexander McCall Smith. Most of these sessions were exclusively covered via Webcasting by Patrika.com . Click here to View the session videos & pictures.

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One of the nicer Objective of this festival was not only to allow readers the opportunity to interact with established and new writers, but also with those who are unknown and whose works are personally admired by the established authors & writers.Other highlights of the festival included readings from Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq by acclaimed actor Om Puri, performances by Titi Robin, Cheb I Sabbah, Susheela Raman, Djaima, Rajasthan Roots and Paban Das Baul, and readings and performances from William Dalrymple’s Nine Lives. There were many more events & sessions worth mentioning apart from the mentioned above but as they say one should see it to beleive it ! Click the link below to check all the sessions videos & pictures .

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Entries open for the Third International KC Kulish International Award for Excellence in Print Journalism- 2009

Rajasthan Patrika announces the Third KC Kulish International Award for Excellence in Print Journalism-2009. This annual award, intuited in 2007, in the sanctified memory of the founder of the newspaper group Karpoor Chandra Kulish, is aimed at recognizing efforts of the teams of journalists working in daily newspapers with a commitment to upholding professional values as well as protecting and promoting rights and freedom of the people for better quality of life.
The theme of this year award is 'Inclusive Development', seeking to honor journalists who have contributed most compelling stories in print impacting the lives and meeting the aspirations of marginalized groups of the community.

The award is open for entries till 15th February 2010. Winning team is awarded cash prize US $ 11,000 and a medal and certificate to each team members. The trophy and prize money is awarded to the institution or team leader (in case of independent team) on behalf of the team. Ten entries also receive special award of merit and given certificate & medal. There is no entry fee for the award. The entries should be based on published stories in daily newspaper between 1st January 2009 to 31st December 2009.

Former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam graced the first award ceremony in 2008 and Loksabha Speaker Meira Kumar bestowed the prizes to the winners of the second KC Kulish International award last year. Harinder Baweja and her team received the second KC Kulish award and Dawn and HT received joint award in 2007. The ceremony for the Third award will be held in the month of March this year. The application procedure and related details can be accessed on www.patrika.com/kckaward