Bibek Debroy, Pushpesh Pant | The Puranas | Jaipur Literature Festival

The Puranas: Bibek Debroy & Pushpesh Pant

Bibek Debroy is an economist and was educated in Ramakrishna Mission School, Narendrapur, Presidency College, Kolkata, the Delhi School of Economics and Trinity College, Cambridge. He is currently Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister and a member of NITI Aayog. He has worked in Presidency College, the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, as the Director of a Ministry of Finance/UNDP project on legal reforms, the Department of Economic Affairs, the National Council of Applied Economic Research, the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Centre for Policy Research. He has authored/edited several books, papers and popular articles and has also been a consulting/contributing editor with several newspapers.
Awards: Padma Shri
Books: Getting India Back on Track: An Action Agenda for Reform, Indian Railways

Pushpesh Pant is a part time teacher, part time author, TV anchor and independent producer of documentaries. Obsessed by food for the last few decades, he has been trying to rediscover lost culinary gems from India’s vast and varied repertoire. Pant doesn’t believe in prohibition or prescriptions when it comes to dietary matters.
Awards: Padma Shri(2016)
Bestselling/ popular Books: India: The Cookbook, International Relations in the 21st Century

The Puranas
The Puranas are ancient texts. There are major and minor Puranas, the former known as Mahapuranas. All Mahapuranas cover five topics – the original creation, secondary cycles of creation and destruction, descriptions of different eras, genealogies of gods and sages, and solar and lunar dynasties. But they contain much more than that. They are like encyclopedias. There are 18 Mahapuranas, all believed to have been composed by Krishna Dvaipayana Vedavyasa, the composer of the Mahabharata. Though translations exist in vernacular languages, some have never been translated into English. In conversation with academic and historian Pushpesh Pant, Bibek Debroy discusses his translation of Bhagavata Purana.
Presented by Patrika Game Changer Series

THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL
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The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access.

Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world's greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue.

Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur.

Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Beatty and Yan Martel, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer, Benjamin Moser, Colson Whitehead and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary luminaries including Amish Tripathi, Chima¬manda Ngozi Adichie, Vikram Chandra and Vikram Seth. An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai.

The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 33 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally.

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