There's a lot that can be said about this particular festival. I've been for it once to experience the ambiance and 'feel' of being in a literature festival.
You will find out about my personal experience, that I had, of being there for it.
I chose to visit the festival with a group of Book lovers and bookworms which popularly refer to themselves as "Book Exchange Club of Mumbai" . I express my gratitude to them , because we had a mix of people with each having their forte in a different genre of writing work, they loved reading.That helped us all get a background about each of the speakers and events over and above what they festival pamphlets said about the authors- for us to make our choices and to pick up the best from what the festival had in store.
The air was so full of intellectual conversations and buzz, that it awakened my senses and presence of being to another level altogether - I was drugged with the sepiosexualism- driven "Hotel California" thought; that I felt sure I could spend my entire lifetime, smoothly there - without ever needing to doubt, look back or hesitate upon the decision.
There were authors doing their book launch. There were authors speaking about trending topics which was discussed within the internal sphere of "claimed to fame" writers. There was a whole world out there with an unending flow of karma, vikarma and akarma.
Being an International festival, they had authors from all walks of life spread over a global terrain, to talk the walk and promote their work and themselves. What was most interesting was the way they managed to organize the show and split the different genres up. The JLF was the first time I'd visited a literature festival and it brought a drive within me to go for others which happened in Mumbai. But no festival I went for was, even in the slightest,close to what #JLF aka Jaipur Literature Festival offered.
I was fortunate to be granted entry into a VIP -Jaipur Bookmark Festival more specifically only open for Published authors and publishers, wherein the general mob was not permitted. none of my friends were allowed in either. I could do so because I had published my book on poems and I had proof to show it to them. This way I could connect with the founders and actual owners of the JLF. That was a big leap .. in my journey to become a part of the writing fraternity, to be recognized as one of them as I was struggling very hard to become " One of them" ... It was a feeling I craved for the most, then.
It has been 2 years since then.....
I am today very happy to have made that journey and chosen a path I can dedicate my life to.
You will find out about my personal experience, that I had, of being there for it.
I chose to visit the festival with a group of Book lovers and bookworms which popularly refer to themselves as "Book Exchange Club of Mumbai" . I express my gratitude to them , because we had a mix of people with each having their forte in a different genre of writing work, they loved reading.That helped us all get a background about each of the speakers and events over and above what they festival pamphlets said about the authors- for us to make our choices and to pick up the best from what the festival had in store.
The air was so full of intellectual conversations and buzz, that it awakened my senses and presence of being to another level altogether - I was drugged with the sepiosexualism- driven "Hotel California" thought; that I felt sure I could spend my entire lifetime, smoothly there - without ever needing to doubt, look back or hesitate upon the decision.
There were authors doing their book launch. There were authors speaking about trending topics which was discussed within the internal sphere of "claimed to fame" writers. There was a whole world out there with an unending flow of karma, vikarma and akarma.
Being an International festival, they had authors from all walks of life spread over a global terrain, to talk the walk and promote their work and themselves. What was most interesting was the way they managed to organize the show and split the different genres up. The JLF was the first time I'd visited a literature festival and it brought a drive within me to go for others which happened in Mumbai. But no festival I went for was, even in the slightest,close to what #JLF aka Jaipur Literature Festival offered.
I was fortunate to be granted entry into a VIP -Jaipur Bookmark Festival more specifically only open for Published authors and publishers, wherein the general mob was not permitted. none of my friends were allowed in either. I could do so because I had published my book on poems and I had proof to show it to them. This way I could connect with the founders and actual owners of the JLF. That was a big leap .. in my journey to become a part of the writing fraternity, to be recognized as one of them as I was struggling very hard to become " One of them" ... It was a feeling I craved for the most, then.
It has been 2 years since then.....
I am today very happy to have made that journey and chosen a path I can dedicate my life to.
