Portraying gods as angry is inaccurate, Devdutt Pattanaik said at the Nainital Lit festival. ‘Only helpless people get angry, and gods aren't helpless'.
Bhavika Govil, Shunali Khullar Shroff, and Amrita Mahale said that women often struggle with society's expectations at the JLF, a notion with which audience member Sudha Murthy disagreed.
At the closing debate of JLF, Pavan K Varma posed a question that had the crowd in an uproar. ‘Would you want to be in jail without bail,’ he said, referring to Umar Khalid.
‘If an expeditious trial is not possible, then bail should be the rule and not the exception,’ ex-CJI DY Chandrachud told Vir Sanghvi at a Jaipur Literature Festival session on Sunday.
Rohit Chawla's 'Portrait of an Artist' was launched at the Jaipur Literature Festival by Bipin Shah. The book is a collection of photographs taken over the years.
Speaking at the inaugural address, Bhajan Lal Sharma urged writers and the younger generation to write something meaningful, something with thought and feeling.
Shalini Passi was at Jaipur Literature Festival to launch her first book—The Art of Being Fabulous. 'Please judge the book by its cover. It is as fabulous as it looks,' she said.
Javed Akhtar's session at JLF 2026 chronicled the poet’s journey from his first literary influence to the ever-changing landscape of the Hindi film industry.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
COMMENTS