Jaipur Literature Festival Since the Jaipur Literature Festival is going on please read my article The Role of Art, Literature and the Media . I regret I do not see any great art and literature today. Where is the Dickens of today? Where are the Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Maxim Gorky, Balzac, Shakespeare, Bernard Shaw, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Upton Sinclair, John Steinbeck, Goethe, Schiller, Pablo Neruda and Cervantes of today ? Where are the Kalidas, Kabir, Premchand, Sharat Chandra, Tulsidas, Ghalib, Faiz, Mir, Firaq and Manto of today ? Where are the Voltaire, Rousseau and Thomas Paine of today? There seems to be to be almost total literary vacuum. Everything has become commercialized today. Writers write only to earn some money, not to help people in their struggle for a better life. As I said in my article, in a poor country like India art and literature must help the people in their struggle for a better life by highlighting their socio-economic problems and inspiring them to get rid of our huge social evils like poverty, malnutrition, price rise,unemployment, lack of healthcare and good education for the masses, ill treatment of women, etc. Hence the Jaipur Literature Festival seems more like a tamaasha to me, rather than a real literature festival.
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 16:05:49 +0000
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