Jaipur. The iconic Jaipur Literature Festival released the third list of names of speakers to be included in its much-awaited 17th edition. The festival will be organized from 1-5 February 2024 at Hotel Clarks Amer Jaipur, Jaipur. Like every year, this time too famous writers, thinkers, idealists, visionaries and intellectuals from across the country and the world will participate in the festival. He will discuss a variety of relevant topics in live conversation with the audience.
The third list of 25 speakers includes the famous Indian social entrepreneur and activist Amod K. Kant, who has also been a very powerful IPS officer. He has published books. Khaki in Dust Storm and Khaki on Broken Wings is a book published by Arun Myra, former member of the Planning Commission of India, Chairman of BCG India, Chairman of Save the Children India, Chairman of Help Age International.
Shaping the Future, Sahitya Akademi Award-winning poet Badri Narayan, whose poems have been translated into many Indian languages including English, Bengali, Oriya, Malayalam, Urdu. International Booker Prize-winning translator and artist Daisy Rockwell, who was honored for her translation of Gitanjali Sri’s novel Ret Samadhi. International Booker shortlisted author, editor and translator Daniel Lahan, founding director of the cultural center ‘Casa de la India’ in Spain and author of When Mirrors are Windows Guillermo Rodriguez, former CEO of Procter & Gamble and popular author Gurucharan Das, born in Malaysia, London-based writer Ewing Ove’s book The American Boyfriend was highly appreciated.
Other names included in the list are. Actor, author and former White House staffer Culpen, whose most recent book is Youcent Becarius; Katherine Rundell, author of the multi-award winning book Super-Infinite; Koel Puri Rinchet, award-winning Indian actress, producer and author of Clay Early Invisible in Paris; Lewis Kennedy, author of Trespasses, Manju Kapoor, author who won the Commonwealth Prize for the novel Custody, had produced a successful serial on this novel by Balaji. Matthew Parker, author of The Sugar Barons and Golden Eye, biographer, novelist, memoirist and critic Miranda Seymour, successful author Monica Ali, whose book Brick Lane was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The list also includes Naushad Forbes, co-chairman of Forbes Marshall, whose latest book is The Struggle and the Promise, Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History at Oxford University and author of The Silk Roads, Peter Moore, author of Sundata’s best-selling book The Weather Experiment and Endeavour, Philip J., historian of the British Empire and author of the award-winning book The Company-State. Stern, British Indian writer and author of the award-winning novel Steel Lives Reshma Ruia, author, producer, television presenter and author of the successful The Thursday Murder Club series Richard Osman, Executive Director of Delcarnage and former national speaker of the Congress Party Sanjay Jha, Founder of Infosys Foundation and Popular author Sudha Murthy; Writer, columnist and cultural icon Yatindra Mishra and other celebrities are included.
