Storytellers

At the Jaipur Literature Festival, pre-festival dinner, January 20. That's me, someone else, and a third person. ;)

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Off to Jaipur

I'm off to India tomorrow for the Jaipur Literature Festival. I leave Monday, reach Wednesday. By Friday, the day of my first session I may just be crazy-talking, funny-walking with jet lag. Still, I know the sessions will be fascinating and fun. Here's where you'll find me:

On Friday, January 21st at 5 p.m., I'll be interviewing Junot Diaz, author of the incredible short story collection Drown and of the Pultitzer prize-winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
On Monday, January 24th at 10 a.m., Madhu Trehan will interview me and author Gyan Prakash on the subject of the 'Mumbai Narrative'.
And my last session is on the 25th at 10 a.m., in which I moderate a panel on 'New Non Fiction' featuring,  among others, Martin Amis and David Finkel. (If you haven't already, do read Finkel's gorgeous book on the war in Iraq, The Good Soldiers).


Photo: With Vikram Seth, JLF 2009; with Manil Suri in 2008; with fellow contributors to the anthology AIDS Sutra, 2009.

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Buying Stamps Just Became More Fun

Nice work USPS!

(Which other Indians should get their own US First Class stamp? Or better still, their own 98 cent stamp so that when we send cards to friends and family in India, we can stick one on? Don't say Gandhi, he got his ages ago!)

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