IJaipur Litfest eLondon 2019: AmaTiger aye kwiiBhiliyoni

Ngoku ukuba iJaipur Literary Festival (JLF) eLondon iphelile, umntu ufuna iintsuku ezimbalwa zokucingisisa oko akufundileyo kwimpelaveki enzima edibanisa iingcamango kunye neengxoxo malunga noluhlu oludizayo lwezihloko. I-ZEE JLF kwiThala leeNcwadi laseBritane eLondon iye yaba yindawo eqinileyo neyamkelekileyo kwikhalenda yonyaka yase-UK. Umnyhadala woncwadi, owaqala eJaipur kwiminyaka elishumi eyadlulayo njengombhiyozo owahlukileyo wokubhala malunga noMzantsi Asia, uye wandisa ukufikelela kwawo ngohlelo lwamazwe ngamazwe olusasazeke kwiindawo ezahlukeneyo njengeBelfast, Houston, New York, Colorado, Toronto, kunye neAdelaide. Abathandi bamagama kunye noncwadi bayakwazi ukuphuncuka kwiingxaki zobomi babo bemihla ngemihla ukuva inkitha yababhali abadumileyo bethetha ngeencwadi zabo kwaye batshintshiselane ngezimvo ngemiba ebalulekileyo kuthi sonke kwaye bahlalutye ukubaluleka kunye nefuthe leziganeko zembali.

I-ZEE JLF ngumbhiyozo ovuyisayo woncwadi, imibongo, umdaniso, ubugcisa kunye nemidlalo. Ndingongeza elinye igama ukuchaza i-ZEE JLF eLondon kulo nyaka-iyathuthuzela. Isizathu soku kukuba namhlanje, xa umntu echazelwa imiyalezo ezele intiyo kumajelo osasazo nakwintetho yemihla ngemihla, bekuthuthuzela ukufumanisa ukuba basekhona abantu abakholelwa kwintetho ekhululekileyo, ngemvisiswano nakwisininzi. Nakwiingxoxo-mpikiswano nakwiingxoxo nezithethi ezazineembono eziphikisayo, ithoni yayiyeyasekuhlaleni kwaye ayizange yehlele kuhlaselo lomntu olubi njengoko sele kuyinto eqhelekileyo kwimiboniso yeTV.

Ushicilelo lwesithandathu lwe-ZEE JLF kwiThala leeNcwadi lase-Bhritane luqale ngolwesiHlanu ngentetho yokuvula enomxholo othi "Ukucinga Ngehlabathi Lethu," enikezelwe ngabaLawuli boMnyhadala uNamita Gokhale noWilliam Dalrymple, uMvelisi woMnyhadala kunye noMlawuli oLawulayo weQela loBugcisa uSanjoy K Roy, oyiNtloko yeThala leencwadi laseBritane. U-Roly Keating, kunye noMkomishinala oPhezulu wase-India e-UK u-Ruchi Ghanshyam.

U-Gokhale uthe uMnyhadala ubenegalelo "kwinto eguqulweyo," eyenzeka e-India yanamhlanje apho ulutsha lwelizwe lukhuthazekile ukuba limamele ezinye zeengqondo zaseIndiya- "Yindawo apho i-India icinga ngokuvakalayo," utshilo. UDalrymple wakhwaza into eyinqaba ukubukela ukukhula kwalo mnyhadala, ebonisa ukuba ufumene inyawo ngaphezulu kwesigidi kuhlelo lwakutshanje eJaipur. URoy ulivumile igalelo loncwadi ekudaleni uvelwano kunye nokulingana kwihlabathi, ejonga ukuba uncwadi luphinda ludibana nehlabathi langoku lokwahlukana okwandayo. UKeating, ebulela kakhulu intsebenziswano phakathi kweThala leencwadi laseBritane kunye noMnyhadala, uthe "oko kufanelekileyo akunakusondela." UGhanshyam uvakalise ukuba iziganeko ezinje ngezi zikhulisa njani ukuqonda indawo nabantu ekubhiyozelweni kweencwadi kunye nababhali kunye "nobomi ngokwabo."

Ukuphela. Ifoto © Rita Payne

Intetho ephambili ethi, “Of Cities and Empire,” ibingu-Tristram Hunt, uMlawuli we-V & A kunye nowayesakuba lilungu lePalamente lezabaSebenzi, nalapho ebexoxa ngencwadi yakhe, “Izixeko ezilishumi ezenze ubukhosi.” U-Hunt uthethe ngolu tshintsho kwintetho yamva nje yobukoloniyaliyali: “Ingozi ngoku kukuba xa singena kulwimi lwezimangalo kunye noxolelo ngokusesikweni, indawo yokugweba ngokwembali inciphile. Kufuneka siyeke ukusondela eBukumkanini ngokubhekisele kokulungileyo nokubi kwaye sicinge ngobukrelekrele ngokubuza malunga nezinto ezibaphikisayo, njengoko uninzi lwazo lusenathi. ”

Kwingxoxo eyalandelayo, umbhali kunye nembali u-Shrabani Basu waxoxa ngencwadi ka-Hunt kunye ne-Shashi Tharoor's Glorious Empire. Ngokubhekisele kwintshukumo yakutshanje yokuchithwa kwelizwe ngamaziko olondolozo lwembali, uHunt uthethe ngobundlobongela bezopolitiko bexesha elidlulileyo kunye nokungalingani kwezoqoqosho okwangoku okujikeleze ulwakhiwo lwezi ngqokelela. UTaroor ucebise ukuba imalunga nezinto ezininzi zembali ezinje ngezi zibonisiwe kwiimyuziyam ngaphandle kokuvuma imeko yobukoloniyali.

Njengesiqhelo, ibingumceli mngeni ukugqiba ukuba ziziphi iiseshoni oza kuzimasa. Ukhetho lwalubanzi kwaye lwalunzima kuba amaxesha amaninzi iiseshoni ezahlukeneyo umntu onqwenela ukuya kuzo ziqhubeka ngaxeshanye. Utyekelo kukuthambekela kwiiseshoni kwimixholo apho umntu anomdla okhethekileyo khona. Enye yandimela kuba yayijongana nomba obalulekileyo ukuze siphile - Ukushabalala - apho abalondolozi bendalo, u-Prerna Bindra, uRuth Padel, no-Raghu Chundawat, babencokola nombhali nentatheli, u-John Elliott. Bathethile ngomlinganiso onganabungozi phakathi koluntu nendalo namahlathi anciphayo njengoko athengiselwa uphuhliso kunye nefuthe lokungqubana kwezilwanyana zasendle. Phantse kwinkulungwane eyadlulayo, kuqikelelwa ukuba bekukho izingwe zasendle ezingama-100,000, kodwa ngo-2010, sasilahlekile ngaphezulu kwama-95% kubemi beengwe zasendle ehlabathini ikakhulu ngenxa yokuzingela ngokungekho mthethweni nokuzingela iindawo zokuhlala. Kwimeko ye-Indiya, elihlala kwi-60% yeengwe zasendle zehlabathi, iinzame zolondolozo zivelise impumelelo kwinani langoku eliqikelelwa ukuba lingama-2,200 XNUMX. Nangona kunjalo, umntu akanakukwazi ukungakhathali. Kwakungonwabisi ukuva kuRuth Padel ukuba xa ephakamisa inkxalabo yakhe malunga nokunyamalala kwezilwanyana zasendle eIndiya kwezopolitiko eziphezulu zaseIndiya, impendulo yakhe yokugxeka kukuba izilwanyana zasendle azinavoti. Uthethe into ebalulekileyo yokuba ubukho bamahlosi asendle luphawu lwehlathi elisempilweni. Ngaphandle kwamahlathi, ayimiphunga yehlabathi, ifuthe kwindalo esingqongileyo nakubuntu liya kuba yintlekele.

Sele sibona ifuthe elibi lomonakalo kwindalo ebangelwa ngumsebenzi wabantu. Izithethi zivume ukuba eyona ngxaki iphambili kukuzisa uluntu lwasekuhlaleni kwicala ekusenokwenzeka ukuba imfuyo yabo ibulewe zizilwanyana zasendle okanye ekusenokwenzeka ukuba ihlaselwe kwabona. Kwacetyiswa ukuba isisombululo sinokuba kukubonelela ngembuyekezo kubantu basekuhlaleni okanye ukubavumela ukuba baxhamle ngokwemali kukhenketho. Izithethi zikwavumile ukuba i-eco-tourism yayiyindlela eya phambili kwaye kunokwenzeka ukuzisa utshintsho olukhawulezayo ngemigaqo-nkqubo efanelekileyo.

Ukuvala ulwamkelo ukusuka ekhohlo ukuya ekunene - uWilliam Dalrymple, uNamita Gokhale, uSanjoy Roy kunye noMat Reed, umphathi we-Aga Khan Foundation yase-UK. Ifoto © Rita Payne

Umboniso wokwahluka kwemixholo ekwaxoxwa ngayo yayiyiseshoni “Kwii-Billionaires: Ukujonga i-Indian Elite James Crabtree kunye no-Avi Singh” xa bencokola noMukulika Banerjee. UCrabtree, umbhali wencwadi ethi “The Billionaire Raj - A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age,” uthethe kamnandi ngokudibana kwakhe nezityebi zaseIndiya, ezinje nge-Ambanis kunye neVijay Mallya, ngelixa ephanda incwadi yakhe. Injongo yakhe yayikukufumanisa ukuba ngoobani, bayenza njani imali yabo, kwaye bacinga ntoni ngesiqu sabo. UCrabtree uthi phantse bonke baziva bephethwe kakubi ngamajelo eendaba kunye nokusilela kwabo ekuqondeni igalelo abalwenzileyo kwimpumelelo yezoqoqosho e-India. Inani elonyukayo loosomashishini ngoku bathenga izindlu zosasazo ukufumana ulawulo lwendlela abonwa ngayo luluntu.

NgoMgqibelo, abaphulaphuli bafumba iiseshoni kwiindawo ezi-3 zomnyhadala. Kwiseshoni "Umatshini weGene," uNobel Laureate kunye noMongameli weRoyal Society uVenki Ramakrishnan baxoxa ngencwadi yakhe yamva nje noRoger Highfield weMuseum Museum yaseLondon. URamakrishnan uqaphele ukuba ukuze inzululwazi ichume, kufuneka ivumele kwaye ikhuthaze inkululeko yokucinga nokuthetha.

Kwi "Masala Shakespeare," uJonathan Gil Harris uxoxe ngencwadi yakhe entsha ebhiyozela uhlobo olungaphantsi lwe-cinema yase-Hindi eyayidumile ngasekupheleni kweminyaka yoo-1970/80: abantu abasindileyo ababizwa ngokuba "ziifilimu ze-masala," kuba baxuba intlekele kunye nokuhlekisa, ubunyani inyathelo-ephezulu, zonke zifakwe kwingoma nakwindlela yokudanisa. Umbhali uzobe umgca ocacileyo osuka kule sitampu ubuyela eShakespeare, nolwimi lwakhe loyilo lwalunenkcubeko ngendlela efanayo neefilimu zeMasala.

Iseshoni "Ukhanyiso lwamaSilamsi: Ukholo kunye nokuqiqa" yabona ingxoxo phakathi kukaChristopher de Bellaigue, umbhali kunye nentatheli osebenze kakhulu kwilizwe lamaSilamsi, kunye noMlawuli we-Co-director uWilliam Dalrymple, ngesihloko soxinzelelo phakathi kokholo kunye nokuqiqa Imbali yehlabathi lamaSilamsi. UDe Bellaigue ubalaselise utshintsho lwembali kwezentlalo, ezopolitiko, kunye nezobuchwephesha ezenzeka kwimbali yamandulo kunye notshintshiselwano olwenzeka phakathi kwelizwe lamaSilamsi nelizwe laseNtshona.

Kwi "The Begum," iipaneli uDeepa Agarwal, uNamita Gokhale, uTahmina Aziz Ayub, noMuneeza Shamsie bathethe nemodareyitha uMaha Khan Philips malunga noBegum Ra'ana Liaqat Ali Khan, uMongameli wokuqala wasePakistan phakathi kwinkulungwane yama-20 - itshantliziyo , ubufazi, uncedo, ufundele, idiplomat, kunye nomama onomdla. Kwincwadi entsha, umbhali wasePakistan uTahmina Aziz Ayub kunye nomlobi waseIndiya uDeepa Aggarwal bahlangana ndawonye benenkcubeko eyahlukeneyo. Intsebenziswano yokuwela umda ukuxelela ibali elinyanzelisayo lalo mfanekiso wembali.

Ezinye iiseshoni ngoMgqibelo zazibandakanya: "IiNkomfa zoBugcisa obulityalwayo kwiNkampani yase-East India" (Malini Roy, Yuthika Sharma, Katherine Butler Schofield, kunye noRosie Llewellyn-Jones kwincoko noWilliam Dalrymple); "UEva Wayeneentloni: Indlela Ubulungisa Busilela Ngayo Abasetyhini" (uHelena Kennedy, uAvi Singh, kunye noSunita Toor kwincoko noBee Rowlatt); "I-Tagore kunye ne-Bengal Renaissance" (uReba Som kunye noBashabi Fraser kwincoko kunye noSomnath Batabyal); “Amagama Ngawo Sonke Sinawo” ( uAnjali Joseph, uLijia Zhang, noRomesh Gunesekera bencokola noCatharine Morris); "#Tharoorisms" (uShashi Tharoor kwincoko noPragya Tiwari); "UMallika Victoria: Empress of India" (uMiles Taylor kunye noShrabani Basu kwincoko noVayu Naidu); “Iintlanganiso Nemibhalo-ngqangi Ephawulekayo” (uChristopher de Hamel owaziswa nguWilliam Dalrymple); kunye "no-Amritsar kunye noMbulali weMonde" (uAnita Anand kunye noKim A. Wagner kwincoko kunye noNavtej Sarna).

Abanye bathi umbutho odumileyo wokuzibandakanya neqela leendaba le-ZEE uboleka ukuthembeka kumjelo weendaba otyholwa ngokuqhuba ingxelo. Nangona kunjalo, akukho nto iphikayo ukuba iJaipur Literature Festival eIndiya yinto yoncwadi lwehlabathi, ibambe izithethi ezingaphezu kwama-2,000 XNUMX kwaye yamkela abangaphezu kwesigidi abathandi beencwadi abasuka kwihlabathi jikelele kule minyaka ilishumi idlulileyo.

ELondon, i-ZEE JLF kwiThala leeNcwadi laseBritani izisa imilinganiselo efanayo yendalo iphela, yedemokhrasi, kunye neyona nto ibalulekileyo yomnyhadala woncwadi waseJaipur e-UK. Lithuba lokuva iingcali eziphezulu zabelana ngolwazi lwabo kwizifundo ezahlukeneyo njengezisongelo kwiingwe kunye nento eyenza oosozigidigidi baseIndiya bapheke. Akusekho mfuneko yokuba ahambe aye eJaipur ukuze abhence kwiingxoxo ezixhokonxa iingcinga, ezicela umngeni kunye nokuqonda. Kukho onke amathuba okuba nokuba ungaphi na kwihlabathi, umthendeleko owaziwayo wokubhala uya kuza kwindawo ekufutshane nawe.