Jaipur Literature Festival 2025 unveils multifaceted program

The Jaipur Literature Festival returns for its 18th edition from January 30, to February 3, 2025 at Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur. Teamwork Arts, India’s pioneering curation company and Festival producer, revealed the first list of sessions for the 2025 programme, which will, once again, reinforce the transformative power of books and ideas.

With over 300 eminent speakers, this year’s Festival will feature debate, discourse and stories.Among sessions that have been announced include:Poor Economics for the Young; Our City That Year; David Hare: A Life in Theatre and Film; India’s First Diplomats; Roman Year: A Memoir; Kairos: The Heart Divided; The Personal Is Political: An Activist’s Memoir; Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality; The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters; Amol Palekar: The Viewfinder; Two Sages: Gandhi and Tolstoy; Deep Water: The World in the Ocean; and Long and the Short. Namita Gokhale, Festival Co-Director, remarked, “The Jaipur Literature Festival 2025 is a dynamic mosaic of books and ideas , conversations and arguments, explorations and epiphanies. We interrogate the changing realities of our fractured world, and search for inspiration and belief in a better one. From Mystics and Madmen to Economics for the Young, from geopolitics to the ancient academia of Nalanda, from food in all its flavours, to mountain mammals, an unfolding voyage of discovery, with each day opening up new wonders and new vistas.”

While, William Dalrymple, Festival Co-Director, shared, “The 2025 edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival encapsulates the spirit of our event—a celebration of diverse voices and powerful narratives that engage, challenge, and inspire audiences from around the world. We are thrilled to present a lineup that reflects the Festival’s essence of intellectual and cultural exchange.”

The 2025 edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival will also host a range of segments that run in parallel to it each year – the Jaipur BookMark (JBM); the Jaipur Music Stage; Heritage Evenings; the Festival Bookshop; and finally, an exclusive Friend of the Festival package that lets attendees savour a curated experience of the Festival.