Jaipur Literature Festival to begin today

Jaipur Literature Festival will begin today. About 500 speakers of different fields are participating in the festival, which is currently in its 13th year. The five-day event will see more than 200 sessions and will be attended by 500 speakers from 20 countries.

Out of them, 120 are award-winning speakers. The festival will have a range of speakers including Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee, Booker award-winning British novelist Howard Jacobson and



Auther Elizabeth Gilbert. 

37 sessions will be held the first day today, which includes speakers such as Nandita Das, Subha Mudgal, Prasoon Joshi, and others. The broad themes of the festival this time include climate, constitution, poetry, and artificial intelligence. Police has made special arrangements of security and traffic around the venue of the festival and walled city.