The Jaipur Dialogues

The Jaipur Dialogues
Genre Literary festival
Location(s) Jaipur, India
Years active 2016 – present
Website www.thejaipurdialogues.com
First session of The Jaipur Dialogues 2017 featuring Arif Mohammad Khan, Narendra Kohli, David Frawley, Sonal Mansingh, and Sanjay Dixit speaking

Jaipur Dialogues[1] is a conference, discussion, and book launch event in Jaipur, India. It is the flagship event of Jaipur Dialogues Forum, a non-profit organisation.

Sanjay Dixit is the Chairman of the Forum. The Jaipur Dialogues is the flagship brand of the Forum. It is organised as an annual event, besides many smaller events through the year.

The annual event and the smaller events have been held in Jaipur only. The 2017 event was attended by famous personalities from all sides of the intellectual discourse, but the event had a preponderance of the people from the right wing[2]

The first event was held on 19-20 November, 2016[3]. The second annual event was held on 18, 19, 20 November, 2017.

A small academic event was held on March 8, 2018 with David Frawley, Sanjay Dixit and Abhijit Chavda attending. The topics for discussion included 'Collapse of Aryan Invasion Theory' and 'Relationship of Quantum theory and Relativity with Vedanta'.

Participants

The first annual event was attended by:

The second annual event was significantly expanded. Participants included but are not limited to:

The event was widely reported in National newspapers.[8]

Book Launches

Two Book launches were done during the event. Sanjay Dixit did a soft launch of his Krishna Gopeshvara, a forthcoming publication of Bloomsbury Publishing, and Shantanu Gupta released his Bloomsbury Publishing publication, The Monk Who Became Chief Minister.

References

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