The pink city is once again playing host to the ZEE\nJaipur Literature Festival (JLF). JLF is considered to be amongst the top literary\nfestivals in the world and is one of the biggest in Asia. Some of the finest\nwriters from across the globe and an audience that loves to read have gathered\nat the Diggi Palace for the ninth edition of JLF. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The festival is known to bring together individuals\nfrom a variety of arenas namely politics, media, publishing, cinema, literature\nand many more, which makes this festival the ideal setting for experiential,\nexperimental, hands on practical learning for any student of liberal arts. It\nis with this thought that the Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities\n(JSLH) conceptualised a 2 credit course on the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival,\nwhich has been launched this year and is currently being taught during the\nfestival. The course offers 2 credits to students who pursue the course over 10\ndays in Jaipur and follow up classes at the campus in Sonipat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prof. C Raj Kumar Founding Vice Chancellor, O.P.\nJindal Global University speaking of this new initiative of Jindal School of\nLiberal Arts and Humanities said, \u201cWe are deeply committed to innovation and\ntransformation in higher education and initiatives like these are a physical\nmanifestation of that vision. I would like to congratulate Sanjoy Roy for the\nworld class festival that he produces year after year. I hope that this year\u2019s\nfestival and this innovative course will be an experience of a life time for\nour students, thanks to the support of Teamwork Arts and efforts of Dean\nModrowski and Arjun Puri of the Jindal School of Liberal Arts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
O.P. Jindal Global University had representation at\nJLF 2015, with Arjun Puri, part of the Jindal School of Liberal Arts and\nHumanities, releasing his first collaborative effort with artists Thukral and\nTagra. It was then that he began conceptualising a course on JLF. Speaking\nabout the course Puri said, \u201cWe often speak of students being exposed to a\nholistic education and for that to be realized, classes must not only be\ninteresting but also have practical use and that is precisely what this course\nseeks to accomplish, this new course will be the first of its kind to be taught\noutside the four walls of a building amidst thousands of people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kathleen Modrowski, Dean Jindal School Of Liberal\nArts and Humanities has been instrumental in pushing this idea into reality\nwhile expressing her delight at the start of this new initiative said, \u201cThe\nJindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities of O.P. Jindal Global University\nis honored to have its students participating as interns with the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF). Students\nfrom the Liberal Arts and Law School will work alongside regular staff\nproviding logistical support, communicating through social media, and assisting\nguest authors, among other duties. Student interns will be able to interview\ntheir favorite writers, listen to emerging talent and be inspired. The JLF is\nmore than a showcase for writers. We anticipate that the range of discussions\nand the diversity of the audience will provide students with a better learning\nexperience than any they encounter in a classroom. This could even be a\ntransformative moment for some\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The students will be interning at the festival under\nthe guidance of Arjun Puri to get a better idea of how the festival functions,\nthe roles will range from social media to event management, logistics to\nblogging. And, there is a very strong\nliterary aspect as well which involves reading assignments and writing papers.\nThe healthy mix of both working at the festival and reading & writing is what\nwill set this course apart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
JSLH hopes that this course will be a yearly\ntradition to take students to Jaipur and better understand how the festival\noperates, how writers think, to break boundaries and barriers and to create a\nnew skill-set that will aide in carving futures for hardworking and curious\nstudents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bring on JLF\n2016!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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