Monday, January 28, 2013

#JLF: The Jaipur Literature Festival






Imagine a buffet. You are served a choice of five courses every hour. Each hour you can find some serving that looks very promising. You do this for seven courses over the course of the day. And then, you do it again the next day. By the end of the next day you're feeling full, but then you look at the menu for the next day. This is a menu that seems to have endless, delicious looking courses. Of course, not all of them prove delicious, but enough of them do to make-up for any disappointments. By the end of the fifth day, you fear that you're like the Terry Jones character in the "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life" who's gorged himself but who can't resist the one last mint.


Fortunately, filling your head with interesting insights and engaging in thought-provoking discussions don't leave you looking like the disgusting glutton above, and--best of all--you don't blow up. But you are tired. You look like this: 

 
The above photos and paragraph suggest something of what is what like to attend five days of the Jaipur Literature Festival. We (Iowa Guru, Abba, and I) will be blogging in greater detail soon, but it was fabulous. If you can attend this level of event, I highly recommend it. More to come! 

See Iowa Guru's account as well: http://iowaguruinthepinkcity.blogspot.in/2013/01/the-jaipur-literature-festival.html
 

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