Published Feb 28, 2021, 4:35 am IST
Updated Feb 28, 2021, 4:35 am IST
It’s not just about creative writing; the Jaipur Literature Festival is a festival of ideas
Jaipur Literature Festival (Photo: Facebook @JaipurLitFest)
It’s not just about creative writing; the Jaipur Literature Festival is a festival of ideas. And this year’s edition went on and lived right up to that definition.
So, even though the conversation between “the world’s last great intellectual” Noam Chomsky and TV anchor Sreenivasan Jain was rather underwhelming, and the chemistry between the two men frankly painful to watch, leaving, for the most part, the question built into the theme, “who rules the world”, unanswered, the one between philosopher Michael Sandel and Shashi Tharoor more than made up for it by nudging out into the open a host of exciting observations. Suffice to say, in the course of it, it was Tharoor who skewered the “rockstar”.