Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, Hemali Sodhi | The Rabbit and the Squirrel | Jaipur Literature Festival

The Rabbit and the Squirrel : Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi & Hemali Sodhi Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi is the author of the international bestseller The Last Song of Dusk. His work is translated in 16 languages. He is a winner of the Betty Track Award, the Premio Grinzane Cavour and was nominated for the IMPAC Prize. He has contributed to The New York Times, TIME, among others. His most recent book is The Rabbit & The Squirrel. Awards: Betty Track Award (2004), Premio Grinzane Cavour(2004) Bestselling/ popular Books: The Last Song of Dusk, The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay Hemali Sodhi has spent over two decades in publishing in India, most recently as Penguin Random House’s Senior Vice President Marketing and Children’s Publisher. She has focused on growing readership in India and building publishing brands and has worked with a vast and diverse range of books, authors and publishing lists. She has created marquee events like the Penguin Annual Lecture and Penguin Spring Fever. The Rabbit and the Squirrel Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi’s The Rabbit and the Squirrel is an ode to friendship. Evocatively told and beautifully illustrated, this charming allegory distills its wisdom and life learnings in a timeless yet contemporary voice, looking at the dilemmas of marriage and love and the enduring certainties of friendship. Shanghvi said he wrote the The Rabbit and the Squirrel as a ‘gift of love’. In conversation with publisher Hemali Sodhi, he shares the context of the tale and the elusive genre of the fable and the fairy tale. An enchanting session that reaches out to the child within us all. THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL Described as the 'greatest literary show on Earth', the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas. 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. Link to our website: https://www.jaipurliteraturefestival.org Link to Jaipur Literature Festival 2019 sessions: https://bit.ly/31bmftK Links to the other session by Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi:    • André Aciman, Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi ...   Social media links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JaipurLitFes... Twitter:   / jaipurlitfest   Instagram:   / jaipurlitfest