‘Most extraordinary’ lineup at Jaipur Literature Festival from January 28

SET TO take place between January 28, 2022, and February 1 on-ground in Jaipur and until February 6 online, the 10-day-long annual literature extravaganza will return this year in a hybrid avatar at Hotel Clarks Amer, rather than the Diggi Palace that had been its venue since inception but will now host only the musical events.

It is that time of the year again when the curtains are raised on the greatest literary show (footfall: over four lakhs; viewership: 10 million) in this part of the world.

Set to take place between January 28, 2022, and February 1 on-ground in Jaipur and until February 6 online, the 10-day-long annual literature extravaganza, the Jaipur Literature Festival, will return this year in a hybrid avatar at Hotel Clarks Amer, rather than the Diggi Palace that had been its venue since inception but will now host only the musical events. The festival’s forthcoming 15th edition will have over 250 speakers.

Notable among the writers, thinkers, politicians, journalists and cultural icons who will make up the event are Nobel laureates Abdulrazak Gurnah, Daniel Kahneman and Abhijit V. Banerjee; Booker Prize-winning authors Damon Galgut and DBC Pierre; memoirists Indra Nooyi and Neena Gupta; poet Arundhathi Subramani-am, psychologist Steven Pinker; historians Manu Pillai, Tripurdaman Singh, Ira Mukhoty and Narayani Basu, and Bangladeshi journalist and editor of

The Daily Star Mahfuz Anam, while not forgetting the one-and-only, inimitable Shashi Tharoor.

The short and tastefully presented preview was hosted at the Leela Palace where the Anirudh Varma

Collective along with Rajasthani bagpiper Shyopat Julia welcomed the audience with cheerful notes. Historian and festival co-director William Dalrymple remarked in a video message: “Every year we bring to world’s greatest writers of fiction and non-fiction to Jaipur, but never have we had a lineup quite as extraordinary as this.” Writer and co-director Namita Gokhale felt the programme “conjures the elusive spirit of our transforming times, and gives us healing and resilience”. Onward ho to JLF 2022 which promises to be a rewarding experience.