India\u2019s largest and, arguably, most popular literature festival, this ten-day extravaganza in the picturesque Pink City of Jaipur has hosted more than 5,000 diverse speakers since its launch in 2008. To \u201cserve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access\u201d is Jaipur Literature Festival\u2019s core value. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The speakers have ranged from Nobel laureates to Man Booker Prize and Sahitya Akademi winners such as Ben Okri, Douglas Stuart, Girish Karnad, Gulzar, Joseph Stiglitz, Malala Yousafzai, Margaret Atwood, Muhammad Yunus, M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Orhan Pamuk and Paul Beatty. In 2020, Jaipur Literature Festival evolved into virtual avatars such as Brave New World and Words and Bridges. The 2022 edition, which took place in a hybrid format in March, hosted such marquee names as Abdulrazak Gurnah, Abhijit Banerjee, Giorgio Parisi and Huma Abedin, among several others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Jaipur Literature Festival 2025 will feature an impressive lineup of speakers, including Abhijit Banerjee, Andrew O\u2019Hagan, Anita Anand, Anna Funder, Amol Palekar, Anirudh Kanisetti, Barnaby Rogerson, Benjamin Moser, Cauvery Madhavan, Claire Messud, Claudia De Rham, David Hare, David Nicholls, Esther Duflo, Fiona Carnarvon, Geetanjali Shree, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Gideon Levy, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Ijeoma Oluo, Imtiaz Ali, Ira Mukhoty, Irenosen Okojie, James Wood, Javed Akhtar, Jenny Erpenbeck, Joe Boyd, John Vaillant, Kallol Bhattacherjee, Katy Hessel, Lamorna Ash, Lindsey Hilsum, Maithree Wickramasinghe, Manav Kaul, Manu S. Pillai, Matt Preston, Miriam Margolyes, Nathan Thrall, Pankaj Mishra, Peter Sarris, Philip Marsden, Philippe Sands, Prayaag Akbar, Priyanka Mattoo, Rahul Bose, Ranjit Hoskote, Robert Service, Shahu Patole, Sophy Roberts, Stephen Greenblatt, Stephen R. Platt, Sunil Amrith, Susan Jung, Tarun Khanna, Tina Brown, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, V. V. Ganeshananthan, Venki Ramakrishnan, Yaroslav Trofimov, and Yuvan Aves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n