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00:00This year, the 18th Jaipur Literature Festival's special themes will be Crime Fiction.
00:07Many Crime Fiction writers are coming. Poetry is there.
00:11In Biographies, Theatre and Dance, we have Amol Palekar, M.K. Raina, Hila Arun, and David.
00:20They have written a book. Food will be a special theme.
00:24In Geopolitics, the fractured world, the wars that are happening, we have kept it special.
00:34There will be over 600 writers who are coming from 27 countries, 16 Indian languages, 21 international languages.
00:45Out of which, 31 writers are award-winning writers.
00:50Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Commonwealth Prize, Booker Prize, Sahitya Academy winning writers.
00:58So it will be a fantastic festival. There will be a lot of food.
01:01There will be music. Kailash Kher is coming. Sushila Raman is coming.
01:06And of course, lots of craft and excitement.
01:09Bangladesh, which is going through a lot of turmoil, we have a lot of sessions on it.
01:15Sudip Chakravorty, Ambassador Pinar Chakravorty, they will discuss it a lot on their book.
01:23Sudip was the last Indian to leave during this unrest period.
01:29So we are hoping to have some very good conversations, including on Israel, Palestine, Russia, and of course, Ukraine.
01:37Many people are coming from Ukraine. Many authors are coming from Israel and Palestine.
01:42We have made a new venue in Clarks Abbey. Clarks Hotel has made it for us.
01:48What is here will be a venue called Surya Mahal.
01:53And our middle tent will be our food area.