ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival 2018

Combined Speaker List

Updated 12.12.17

1. Aanchal Malhotra 27. Amita Baviskar 52. Ashok Vajpeyi 2. Abeer Y. Hoque 28. 53. Ashwin Sanghi 3. Abhijit Kothari 29. Amitava Kumar 54. Åsne Seierstad 4. Abhimanyu Singh 30. Amrita Tripathi 55. Atmaprajnananda Arha 31. Amy Tan Saraswati 5. Abhinav 32. Anant Vijay 56. Avinash Das Chandrachud 33. Ananth 57. Azeem Ibrahim 6. Abubakar Adam Padmanabhan 58. B. N. Goswamy Ibrahim 34. Andrew Quintman 59. Bachi Karkaria 7. Adam Nicolson 35. Angela Saini 60. Benjamin Dix 8. Aditi Maheshwari 36. Anja Aronowsky 61. Bihwadeep Moitra Goyal Cronberg 62. Brahma Chellaney 9. Aditya Arya 37. Anna Funder 63. Brigitte Uttar 10. Adrian Levy 38. Anne Cheng Kornetzky 11. Adriana Lisboa 39. Annie Montaut 64. Bulaki Sharma 12. Ajoy Bose 40. Anosh Irani 65. C. Raja Mohan 13. Akhil Katyal 41. Anthony Horowitz 66. Carin Gerhardsen 14. Akhil Sharma 42. Anu Singh 67. Carl W. Ernst 15. Akshay Rathi Choudhary 68. Carlo Pizzati 16. Akshaya Routray 43. Anuj Bahri 69. Caroline Franklin 17. Alan Friedman 44. Anurag Kashyap 70. Cathy Scott-Clark 18. Alan Rosling 45. Arjun Nath 71. Cécile Rischmann 19. Alexandra Harris 46. Arpita Das 72. Chandan Gowda 20. Alexandra Pringle 47. Arun Maira 73. Chandrahas 21. Alia Malek 48. Arunava Sinha Choudhury 22. Alind Maheshwari 49. Arundhathi 74. Charlie English 23. Alka Pande Subramaniam 75. Charmaine Craig 24. Aman Nath 50. Arvind Singh 76. Charu Singh 25. Amin Jaffer Ashiya 77. Chika Unigwe 26. Amish 51. Ashok Chopra 78. Chinmoy Guha

79. Chintan 108. Gunjan Ahlawat 139. Justin Rowlatt Chandrachud 109. Gurcharan Das 140. Jyoti 80. Chitra Mudgal 110. Gurmehar Kaur 141. Jyoti Malhotra 81. Christophe 111. Hamid Karzai 142. Kathy Reichs Jaffrelot 112. Han Yujoo 143. Kaya Genç 82. Christopher de 113. Hansda 144. Keggie Carew Bellaigue Sowvendra 145. Kelly Falconer 83. D. P. Agrawal Shekhar 146. Kiran Nagarkar 84. Dan Jones 114. Helen Fielding 147. Kota Neelima 85. Daryl Shute 115. Hema Maira 148. Kushanava 86. David McWilliams 116. Hitesh Shankar Choudhury 87. David Roche 117. Homi Bhabha 149. Lathika George 88. Deep Chand 118. Hugh Thomson 150. Laxmi Prasad Sankhla 119. Huib Schippers Pant 89. Devyani Bhardwaj 120. Humphrey 151. Leïla Slimani 90. Diarmaid Hawksley 152. Léonora Miano MacCulloch 121. Ian de Toffoli 153. Linda Spalding 91. Diksha Basu 122. Ikram Rajasthani 154. Lisa Randall 92. Dipankar Gupta 123. Ilse Köhler- 155. Lolita Dutta 93. Dominic Rollefson 156. Lorenzo Angeloni Dromgoole 124. Indira Peterson 157. Lucy Hughes- 94. Dorothee Gieux 125. Jairam Ramesh Hallett 95. Elizabeth Chatwin 126. Janice Pariat 158. Ma Thida 96. Era Tak 127. Javed Akhtar 159. Madhav Khosla 97. Esther David 128. Jayapriya 160. Maha Khan 98. Eurig Salisbury Vasudevan Phillips 99. Faith Singh 129. Jeet Thayil 161. Makarand 100. Farooq Engineer 130. Jeffrey Paranjape 101. Galina Lazareva Gettleman 162. Malashri Lal 102. Gaurav Solanki 131. John Elliott 163. Malcolm 103. Gerður Kristný 132. John Freeman Donaldson Guðjónsdóttir 133. Josefine Klougart 164. Malika V Kashyap 104. Giorgio 134. Joshua Ferris 165. Malvika Singh Montefoschi 135. Jovan Mays 166. 105. Glenn Patterson 136. Judy Lief 167. Manas Saikia 106. GR Raghavendra 137. Julia Donaldson 168. Manisha 107. Greg Sheridan 138. Juliet Nicolson Chaudhry

169. Manoj Joshi 203. Mridula Nath 235. Patrick French 170. Manoranjan Chakravorty 236. Per J. Andersson Byapari 204. Muhammad Yunus 237. Peter Bergen 171. Manu Joseph 205. Nadifa Mohamed 238. Peter Bos 172. Manu Pillai 206. Namita Bhandare 239. Phejin Konyak 173. Margaret Alva 207. Namita Gokhale 240. Philip A. 174. Margit Walso 208. Namita Waikar Lutgendorf 175. Marie Brenner 209. Nand Bhardwaj 241. Philip Norman 176. Marina Warner 210. Nandita Das 242. Pico Iyer 177. Markiyan Kamysh 211. Nasera Sharma 243. Pierre Astier 178. Markus Dohle 212. Nasreen Munni 244. Poonam Surie 179. Martin Puchner Kabir 245. Pradip Krishen 180. Matt Frei 213. Nathalie Handal 246. Pragya Tiwari 181. Maya Jasanoff 214. Naveen Kishore 247. Prajwal Parajuly 182. Maya Mrig 215. Nayantara Sahgal 248. Pranay Lal 183. Meeta Pandit 216. Nicholas 249. Prashant Jha 184. Melizarani T. Shakespeare 250. Pratap Bhanu Selva 217. Nicky Arscott Mehta 185. Meru Gokhale 218. Nicolas Dejenne 251. Prayaag Akbar 186. Michael Breen 219. Nicolas Idier 252. Preeti Gill 187. Michael Buckley 220. Nikko Odiseos 253. Prerna Bindra 188. Michael Franklin 221. Nirupam 254. Preti Taneja 189. Michael Ondaatje 222. Norman Ohler 255. Priyanka 190. Michael Puett 223. Novy Kapadia Malhotra 191. Michael Rezendes 224. Nupur Paiva 256. Punam Chadha- 192. Michael Vatikiotis 225. Odd Harald Joseph 193. Michele Albaret- Hauge 257. Puneeta Roy Maatsch 226. Oliver Moystad 258. Punit Misra 194. Mihir Sharma 227. Om Thanvi 259. Rabih 195. Milan Vaishnav 228. P. Sainath Alameddine 196. Minam Apang 229. Pankaj Dubey 260. Raghvendra 197. Mini Krishnan 230. Pankaj Sekhsaria Rawat 198. Minna Lindgren 231. Paola Antonelli 261. Raghvendra Singh 199. Mira Nair 232. Paramita 262. Raja Shehadeh 200. Mona Zote Tripathy 263. Rajdeep Sardesai 201. Mridula Behari 233. Parismita Singh 264. Rajendra Bora 202. Mridula Garg 234. Paro Anand 265. Rakhshanda Jalil

266. Ranjana Sengupta 300. Sayeeda Leghari 330. Sudhanva 267. Ravi DC 301. Sethu Deshpande 268. Ravi Singh 302. Shabana Azmi 331. Sudipti 269. Redmond 303. Shailesh 332. Sugata Ghosh O’Hanlon Bharatwasi 333. Suhasini Haidar 270. Reena Menaria 304. Sharmila Sen 334. Sujata Prasad 271. Renee Singh 305. Sharmila Tagore 335. Sujatha Gidla 272. Renu Kaul 306. Shashi Tharoor 336. Sujeev Shakya 273. Renuka George 307. Sheela Reddy 337. 274. Rick Stroud 308. Sheila Dikshit 338. Suki Kim 275. Rima Hooja 309. Shelja Sen 339. Sunandan Roy 276. Rita Chowdhury 310. Shireen Quadri Chowdhury 277. Rita Kothari 311. Shobhaa De 340. Sunandini 278. Robert Dessaix 312. Shoukat Shoro Banerjee 279. Robert Elgood 313. Shreyasi Goenka 341. Sunita Narain 280. Robert Watkins 314. Shruti Sharma 342. Surendra Mohan 281. Rodaan Al Galidi 315. Shvetha Pathak 282. Rohan Murty Jaishankar 343. Surjit Bhalla 283. Roly Keating 316. Shyam Saran 344. Susan Abulhawa 284. Rupi Kaur 317. Siddharth 345. Suzy Hansen 285. Dhanvant 346. Swapan Dasgupta 286. Salil Tripathi Shanghvi 347. Swati Chaturvedi 287. Sam Cooney 318. Simon Broughton 348. Syed Salman 288. Sam Miller 319. Smriti Kiran Chisty 289. Samhita Arni 320. Snigdha Poonam 349. Tara June Winch 290. Sampat Saral 321. Soha Ali Khan 350. TCA Raghavan 291. Sampurna 322. Sonal Mansingh 351. Tenzing Lamsang Chattarji 323. 352. Terri-Ann White 292. Sandip Roy 324. Stephen Green 353. Tishani Doshi 293. Sanjoy K. Roy 325. Subhash Chandra 354. Tom Miller 294. Sarah Raven 326. Subhro 355. Tom Stoppard 295. Satabdi Mishra Bandopadhyay 356. Tracey Spicer 296. Satish Gupta 327. Suchita Malik 357. Tridip Suhrud 297. Satya Vyas 328. Sudeep 358. Uday S. Kulkarni 298. Saugata Chakravarti 359. Upinder Singh Mukherjee 329. Sudha Murty 360. Vanamala 299. Saurabh Dwivedi Viswanatha

361. Vani Tripathi 370. Vineet Kumar 378. Yasmine El 362. Veena Nagpal 371. Vinod Bhardwaj Rashidi 363. Victor Mallet 372. Vir Sanghvi 379. Yatindra Mishra 364. Victor Sebestyen 373. Vishal Bhardwaj 380. Yotam Ottolenghi 365. Victoria Lautman 374. Vivek Shanbhag 381. Zac O’Yeah 366. Vikas Singh 375. Wendy Were 382. Zakir Hussain 367. Vikrant Pande 376. William 368. Vimlesh Sharma Dalrymple 369. Vineet Bajpai 377. Yash Goyal

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About the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival 2018 Described as the ‘greatest literary show on Earth’ and the ‘Kumbh of literature’, the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas.

The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million booklovers from across India and the globe.

The Festival’s core values remain unchanged; to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access.

Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world’s greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue.

Writers and Festival Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple invite speakers to take part in the five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan’s stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur.

The Festival showcases a range of voices from India and abroad.

Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates J.M. Coetzee, Orhan Pamuk and Wole Soyinka, Man Booker Prize winners Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood and Paul Beatty, Sahitya Akademi winners Girish Karnad, Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary superstars including Amish Tripathi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and . An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry and Thomas Piketty.

The ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces it along with over 25 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally.

In 2014, the Festival spread its wings beyond the borders of India with an annual summer event in London. In 2015, it headed across the pond to Boulder, Colorado where it hosts a similar event every September.

Website: www.jaipurliteraturefestival.org

About Teamwork Arts For over 25 years, Teamwork Arts has taken India to the world and brought the world to India.

In countries such as Australia, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Israel, Korea, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, UK and USA, Teamwork produces over 25 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities.

Teamwork Arts produces one of the world’s largest literary gatherings, the annual ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival, the Ishara International Puppet Festival and the annual Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META) and Festival in New Delhi, international festivals Shared History in South Africa, Eye on India in the United States of America, India by the Bay in Hong Kong, Confluence - Festival of India in Australia, India@70 2017: Year of Culture in the United Kingdom, and many more.

Website: www.teamworkarts.com