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Jaipur Literature Festival is Asia\u2019s biggest platform in India for the meeting of creative minds from across the globe.<\/strong> When Jaipur City shivers by dint of numbing cold in the third week of January, the festival\u2019s venue Diggi Palace feels warm as temperature rises with the heat of debates and discussions among the guest speakers, who travel to India and grace the fest with their luminous presence. Though it is a literature festival as the name suggests, it is not restricted to only one genre of creativity. It is as inviting to leading editors, journalists, publishers, filmmakers, actors and activists as to writers and authors.<\/strong> Since its inception in 2006, Jaipur Literature Festival has been riding higher waves of popularity by fetching in a galaxy of glittering stars from different walks of life. Indian Eagle<\/span> lists some of the guest speakers for the 8th<\/sup> edition of Jaipur Literature Festival<\/strong>, with a brief introduction below:<\/p>\n

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The guest speakers for Jaipur<\/a><\/span> Literature Festival 2015\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Aakar Patel \u2013 <\/strong>a published non-fiction writer and columnist for a few leading publications. \u2018Low Trust Society\u2019 is his upcoming book on India. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ahmed Rashid \u2013 <\/strong>A multi-award winning writer and author of the bestselling \u2018Taliban\u2019. His \u2018Taliban\u2019, and \u2018Descent into Chaos: The US and the Disaster in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia\u2019 are studied at 200 universities across the world. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adam Johnson \u2013 <\/strong>An associate professor in creative writing at Standford University and winner of the Pulitzer Prize 2013 for \u201cThe Orphan Master\u2019s Son\u2019.<\/p>\n

Adam LeBor \u2013 <\/strong>A journalist and author with 11 books to his credit. His conspiracy thriller, \u2018The Washington Stratagem\u2019, set in the United States was published in November this year.<\/p>\n

Alexis Wright \u2013 <\/strong>an eminent novelist with \u2018Plains of Promise\u2019, \u2018The Swan Book\u2019, \u2018Take Power\u2019, and \u2018Carpentaria\u2019 to her credit.<\/p>\n

Alberto Manguel \u2013 <\/strong>a widely published Canadian writer, critic, translator and editor. He is a winner of several international awards for his novels including \u2018All Men are Liars\u2019, \u2018The Library at Night\u2019, and \u2018The Dictionary of Imagery Places\u2019.<\/p>\n

Amish Tripathi<\/strong> \u2013 India\u2019s first literary popstar whose Shiva trilogy \u2013 \u2018The Immortals of Meluha\u2019, \u2018The Secret of the Nagas,\u2019 and \u2018The Oath of the Vayuputras\u2019 is the bestselling book series.<\/p>\n

Amit Chaudhuri<\/strong> \u2013 an award-winning, eminent author and critic whose latest novel \u2018Odysseus Abroad\u2019 is the talk of the literary town worldwide.<\/p>\n

Anita Anand<\/strong> \u2013 a London-based political journalist for BBC Television. She has interviewed Prime Ministers including P V Narasimah Rao, Benazir Bhutto, Tony Blair, Shaikh Hasina, Pervez Musharaf, Nawaz Sharif, Chandrika Kumaratunga and Shaikh Hasina.<\/p>\n

Arshia Sattar<\/strong> \u2013 an award-winning writer whose translations of \u2018Valmiki Ramayana\u2019 and \u2018Tales from Kathasaritsagara\u2019 are widely read. Her latest book is \u2018The Mouse Merchant: Tales of Money in Ancient India\u2019.<\/p>\n

Anupama Chopra<\/strong> \u2013 a film critic, author and Bollywood writer whose book \u2018Sholay: The Making of a Classic\u2019 won the National Award in 2001.<\/p>\n

Ashwin Sanghi<\/strong> \u2013 one of the most eminent Indian English author with the bestselling series of \u2018The Rozabal Line\u2019, \u2018Chanakya\u2019s Chant, and \u2018The Krishna Key\u2019 to his credit.<\/p>\n

Caryl Ferey \u2013 <\/strong>a global traveler who toured the world at the age of 20. His novel Mapuche tells the battle of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Gilbert<\/strong> \u2013 an acclaimed fiction and non-fiction writer whose latest novel, \u2018The Signature of All Things,\u2019 is named the Best Book of the Year 2013 by the New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune.<\/p>\n

James Astill<\/strong> \u2013 the Political Editor for The Economist whose book \u2018The Great Tamasha: Cricket, Corruption and the Turbulent Ride of Modern India\u2019 records the social history of Indian cricket.<\/p>\n

Indrajit Hazra<\/strong> \u2013 a novelist and journalist with three novels including \u2018The Burnt Forehead of Max Saul\u2019, \u2018The Garden of Earthly Delights\u2019, and \u2018The Bioscope Man\u2019 to his credit. His first famous book in the non-fiction category is \u2018Grand Delusions: A Short Biography of Kolkata.<\/p>\n

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Kai Bird<\/strong> \u2013 a Pulitzer-winning historian and journalist whose latest book is the bestselling biography of a CIA officer, \u2018The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames\u2019.<\/p>\n

Kalyan Ray<\/strong>: an eminent professor of English Literature in India and the USA with several books of translation and novels including \u2018No Country\u2019, \u2018City of Memories\u2019, and \u2018Emperor Babur\u2019s Prayer\u2019 to his credit.<\/p>\n

Llewelyn Morgan<\/strong> \u2013 a Classicist at Oxford University and author of \u2018The Buddhas of Bamiyan\u2019. He is fond of Roman poetry.<\/p>\n

Madhu Trehan<\/strong>: the founding editor of the news magazine India Today, and author of the bestselling \u2018Prism Me a Lie, Tell Me a Truth \u2013 Tehelka as Metaphor\u2019. She is a pioneer in investigative journalist.<\/p>\n

Neel Mukherjee –<\/strong> one of the contemporary Indian English writers with two novels \u2013 \u2018Past Continuous\u2019, and \u2018The Lives of Others\u2019 to his credit. The first novel won the Writers\u2019 Guild of Great Britain Award.<\/p>\n

Rajiv Malhotra<\/strong> \u2013 an Indian American researcher in Princeton, the USA. He is the founder of Infinity Foundation, and author of \u2018Being Different\u2019, \u2018Breaking India\u2019, and \u2018Indra\u2019s Net\u2019.<\/p>\n

Raj Kamal Jha<\/strong>: chief editor of The Indian Express and author of \u2018The Blue Bedspread\u2019 which won the Common Wealth Writers\u2019 Prize for Best First Book in 2000. \u2018She Will Build Him A City\u2019 is his upcoming novel.<\/p>\n

Sudha Murthy<\/strong> \u2013 the chairperson of Infosys Foundation and a prolific Indian English writer. She has won several awards including the R.K. Narayan Award, the Padma Shri and the Attimabbe Award for excellence in Kannada Literature.<\/p>\n

Sandip Roy<\/strong> \u2013 a Kolkata-based fiction writer who has authored \u2018Don\u2019t Let Him Know\u2019. He is a senior editor with Firstpost.com, a leading news portal in India.<\/p>\n

Tom Holland<\/strong> \u2013 a published author and documentary writer with four books on ancient and early medieval history \u2013 \u2018Rubicon, Persian Fire, Millennium, and \u2018In the Shadow of the Sword\u2019 to his credit.<\/p>\n

Tim Supple<\/strong> \u2013 a theatre director and writer at the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has directed the internationally acclaimed \u2018A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream\u2019, and others.<\/p>\n

Sam Miller<\/strong> \u2013 the author of \u2018Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity\u2019, \u2018Blue Guide: India\u2019, \u2018A Strange Kind of Paradise: India through Foreign Eyes.<\/p>\n

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