SMVDU: Students of the School of Languages & Literature, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Aaradhana Bandral and Akshay Rayna attended the Jaipur Literary Festival, the largest Free Literature Festival in the world held at Jaipur from 24th-29th January, 2018. During the 5 Day Event, students got a chance to interact with world’s renowned Nobel laureates, Man Booker Prize winners and prominent literary figures like Shashi Tharoor, Homi Bhabha, Dipanker Gupta, Anurag Kashyap and Amish Tripathi. These writers had sessions on “Banned in India”, “Whose Interpretation is it Anyway?”, “Manto: The Man and the Legend”, “Republic of Rhetoric: Free Speech in India”, “Prisoners of Conscience”, “Why I am a Hindu”, etc. It is pertinent to mention that Jaipur Literary festival brings together some of the renowned academicians from and across the South East Asia and the world. It was an enriching and vibrant experience for the students.
