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Pahar: Walking the Himalayas with Shekhar Pathak: Shekhar Pathak, Manisha Chaudhry & Laxmi Prasad Pant
Shekhar Pathak taught in Kumaun University, and has been a Fellow at IIAS, Shimla and NMML, New Delhi. He is the coordinator of PAHAR and Vice President of World Mountain People Association (WMPA) and has authored and edited many books and 18 PAHAD volumes. He has travelled extensively in Himalaya and Tibet and is also associated with the People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI).
Manisha Chaudhry is a leading bi-lingual editor, writer and translator. Having worked in the area of feminist publishing and translation, she has been a publishing professional since 1986. Active in multilingual children's publishing, she has spearheaded many initiatives to promote reading among children and bring equity in primary education. With a firm commitment to working for social change, her work sits in both the activist and literary spaces. She currently heads Manan Books, a publishing house for children, teachers and young people.
Laxmi Prasad Pant is a journalist who has worked for numerous newspapers and magazines over his 20-year-long career. He is currently the State Editor for Rajasthan for Dainik Bhaskar, the biggest Hindi-language newspaper. His bestselling last book, Himalaya Ka Kabristan, was named among one of the most authentic reports on natural disasters.
THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL
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The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access.
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Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur.
Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Beatty and Yan Martel, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer, Benjamin Moser, Colson Whitehead and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary luminaries including Amish Tripathi, Chima¬manda Ngozi Adichie, Vikram Chandra 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, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai.
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