Playwright and actor Girish Karnad best summed up the danger facing writers: not electronic screens, but the forces that want to destroy books. The issue has such resonance now that a session at the annual Jaipur Literature Festival on whether commerce was killing good writing morphed into a dialectic on how far one’s freedom of speech extends.
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January 25, 2015 at 1:36 am
Are you at JLF? If yes, would love to meet.
January 25, 2015 at 3:07 am
No, Abhay, not at Jaipur this time. Enjoy the festival.