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Pink City all decked up for 19th edition of JLF
The Morning Standard
|January 16, 2026
THE Pink City is decked up in celebration as the 19th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) opens Thursday at Jaipur’s Hotel Clarks Amer, presented by the Vedanta group.
Event director William Dalrymple at Jaipur Literature Festival on Thursday | EXPRESS
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Running till January 19, the festival founded in 2006 has once again drawn writers and readers from across the world.
Festival director Namita Gokhale described JLF 2026 as one marked by “spontaneity and spunk”. “Every edition brings opinions, counter-opinions and its own magic, but the spirit remains a joyous curiosity and openness to ideas,” she said at the inauguration, attended by Rajasthan CM Bhajan Lal Sharma and Deputy CM Diya Kumari.
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