Rewriting the lit fest script literature festivals prioritise

The criticism that Indian literature festivals prioritise English to the detriment of other languages has sparked off much soul-searching among curators

As a journalist who writes about books, I end up attending a lot of literature festivals. While it is true that many of them draw from the same pool of well-known speakers that guarantee packed auditoriums and long queues at book-signing booths, it might be hasty to conclude that if you have been to one, you have seen them all.
 

Each festival has its own flavour, partly because of where it is located, who is hosting it, and where the funding comes from. The local and the regional festivals are as important as the national and global ones from a