Can Words Help Heal a Fractured Nation?: A Visit to the Jaipur Literature Festival

THREE MUSLIM GIRLS — two sisters and their cousin — stood in the sunshine on the grounds of the Diggi Palace Hotel in Jaipur, where the world’s largest literary festival took place over five days in late January. All around them, young people streamed into the sprawling compound, before a pandemic changed the world, girls […] The post Can Words Help Heal a Fractured Nation?: A Visit to the Jaipur Literature Festival appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

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