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THE 17TH EDITION OF THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL HAD TO OVERLOOK THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM…THE ARDENT REVIVAL OF THE SANATANA DHARMA. SOMEHOW THERE WAS A ‘HUSHING’ UP OF POLITICAL POLEMICS, AND A GREATER FOCUS ON NON INFLAMMATORY TOPICS AROUND CLIMATE CHANGE, DIGITAL COMMUNICATION (IS SOCIAL MEDIA ERODING SENSIBILITY)…AND INDIA’S STAKES IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE..

PRESENTS HIGHLIGHTS OF HER EXPERIENCE OVER THE CHARGED YET UNEASILY CALM FEST!

First things first. The Jaipur Literature Festival has calmed down. Maybe it has gone from boisterous, inflammatory teenager to sage, politically well-aligned, cautious adult.

Given the vigour and reinstalled ‘Ram Rajya’ (which touched a deep chord in the majority of our population and in me as well)…can we blame a literature Festival for riding on the right side of the powers-that-be? Especially with elections around the corner?

One recalls the furore that rose in earlier years when poet Jeet Thayil once dared to read a few lines from Rushdie’s SatanicVerses. Newspaper headlines screamed about the great possibility of a lathi charge on the largely student population in attendance. The same threats occurred when Rushdie…(barred from visiting India like MF Husain) w

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At the Kumbh Mela, the world's biggest religious event, millions of Indian Hindus are not the only people bathing in the sacred waters to wash away their sins. Foreigners too are among the ascetics, saints, sadhus and spectators thronging the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers in northern India for what is billed as humanity's biggest gathering. Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati grew up in a Jewish family in California but moved in 1996 to an ashram in Rishikesh -- the town made famous internationally when the Beatles visited in 1968 -- and changed her life and her name. "I was on holiday with a backpack and when I got to Rishikesh, on the banks of the sacred Ganges, I had a very very deep, very very powerful spiritual awakening experience which made me realise where I need to be, where I need to spend my life," she told AFP. The 47-year-old is among the worshippers taking a dip at the Kumbh, which is expected to attract well over 100 million people over the next seven weeks. "The reason we take a bath in the sacred waters is to achieve immortality... immortality of the soul," she said. "It felt amazing, it always feels amazing... Normally only the body gets wet but here you actually feel like your inner self is getting wet