Irritating & ignorant article: our @JaipurLitFest literary sessions are massively crowded with passionate, nerdy young readers & our authors regular report the longest signing queues of their careers: in 5 days of the last JLF we sold over 44,000 bookshttps://t.co/lC6EVLF1Qa
Only the Guardian could see 100 literary festivals as a bad thing. The @observeruk was very proud to play a small part in the wonderful meeting of minds and ideas and excitement and argument about books at Jaipur last month. I’ve never seen more engaged audiences, young and old,…
The very fact that India has so many literature festivals, and all of them sponsored, is precisely because our readership base is burgeoning. I don't understand the logic presented in the article.