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India's first and largest rurally-held literature festival. When the world comes to a Wayanadan village to think, listen, read and talk... Earth. Mist. Mountain. Forest. Resilience. Expression. Representation. wlfwayanad.com

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Wayanad Literature Festival @wlfwayanad.bsky.social · 26d

Earth. Mist. Mountain. Forest.
Resilience. Expression. Representation.

432 speakers. One village. One massive festival—the Wayanad Literature Festival.
When the world comes to a Wayanadan village to think, listen, read, and talk.

#WayanadLiteratureFestival #WLF2024 #Kerala #LiteratureandArt

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Wayanad Literature Festival @wlfwayanad.bsky.social · 9h

Senior journalist Shahina KK at #WLF2024 at the session titled,
The Women Watchdogs : Investigations, Harassments and the Resilience of Journalists

with @dhanyarajendran.bsky.social, Neha Dixit @nehadixit123 and Shahina KK | Moderated by Roman Gautam.

#WLF #keralatourism #malayalee #society

Wayanad Literature Festival @wlfwayanad.bsky.social · 16h

The Supreme Court of India is a court of a very small section of people - Prof. G. Mohan Gopal

Excerpt from conversation titled "75 years of Supreme Court of India"

#wayanadliteraturefestival #wlf2024 #75yearsofconstitution #supremecourt #mohangopal #justice #jastichelameswar #shyamdivan

Wayanad Literature Festival @wlfwayanad.bsky.social · 1d

Lawyers, regardless of politics, uphold the rule of law when it’s at stake - Adv. Shyam Divan

Excerpt from conversation titled "75 years of Supreme Court of India"

#wayanadliteraturefestival #wlf2024 #75yearsofconstitution #supremecourtjudge #mohangopal #justice #jastichelameswar #shyamdivan

Wayanad Literature Festival @wlfwayanad.bsky.social · 3d

The main project of fascism is to flatten everything - Arundhati Roy.

Excerpt from #WLF2022 session titled Things That Can and Cannot Be Said
Arundhati Roy in Conversation with @vinodkjose.bsky.social

#WLF #wayanadliteraturefestival #ArundhatiRoy #indianwriters #godofsmallthings #Fascism

Wayanad Literature Festival @wlfwayanad.bsky.social · 3d

Whoever wants to stand with me, you are welcome and whoever doesn’t, goodbye - Arundhati Roy.

Excerpt from #WLF2022 titled Things That Can and Cannot Be Said
Arundhati Roy in Conversation with @vinodkjose.bsky.social

#WLF #wayanadliteraturefestival #ArundhatiRoy #godofsmallthings #women

Wayanad Literature Festival @wlfwayanad.bsky.social · 4d

BJP = Aanamotta (Elephant Egg)..but they will try and break this place (Kerala) - Arundhati Roy

Excerpt from #WLF2022 titled Things That Can and Cannot Be Said
Arundhati Roy in Conversation with @vinodkjose.bsky.social

#WLF #wayanadliteraturefestival #ArundhatiRoy #bjp #godofsmallthings #politics

Wayanad Literature Festival @wlfwayanad.bsky.social · 4d

I had never seen my father until I was 23 years old - Arundhati Roy

Excerpt from #WLF2022 session titled Things That Can and Cannot Be Said
Arundhati Roy in Conversation with @vinodkjose.bsky.social

#WLF #wayanadliteraturefestival #indianliterature #ArundhatiRoy #indianwriters #godofsmallthings

Wayanad Literature Festival @wlfwayanad.bsky.social · 5d

What’s the first sentence that writer Arundhati Roy wrote as a child?

Excerpt from #WLF2022 session titled Things That Can and Cannot Be Said
Arundhati Roy in Conversation with @vinodkjose.bsky.social

#WLF #wayanadliteraturefestival #indianliterature #ArundhatiRoy #indianwriters #godofsmallthings

Wayanad Literature Festival @wlfwayanad.bsky.social · 5d

Mainstream Media is Fascism’s Army - Arundhati Roy.

Excerpt from #WLF2022 session titled Things That Can and Cannot Be Said
Arundhati Roy in Conversation with @vinodkjose.bsky.social

#WLF #ArundhatiRoy #godofsmallthings #politics #Fascism #communalism #hindutva #socialmedia #indianliterature

Wayanad Literature Festival @wlfwayanad.bsky.social · 6d

A lot of my non-fiction is a lot of broken promises to myself not to write - Arundhati Roy.

Excerpt from #WLF2022 titled Things That Can and Cannot Be Said
Arundhati Roy in Conversation with @vinodkjose.bsky.social

#WLF #wayanadliteraturefestival #ArundhatiRoy #godofsmallthings #politics #Fascism

Wayanad Literature Festival @wlfwayanad.bsky.social · 6d

America supports Israel with its wealth, India supports it with its poverty - Arundhati Roy at the launch of her memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me

#ArundhatiRoy #mothermarycomestome #godofsmallthings #WLF #wayanadliteraturefestival #indianwriters #kerala #politics #Fascism #GazaGenocide #palastine

Wayanad Literature Festival @wlfwayanad.bsky.social · 7d

Christians supporting the BJP must remember there’s been more than 300 attacks on churches in a year- Arundhati Roy

Excerpt from #WLF2022 Arundhati Roy in Conversation with @vinodkjose.bsky.social
#WLF #wayanadliteraturefestival #keralaliteraturefestival #godofsmallthings #kerala #ArundhatiRoy

Wayanad Literature Festival @wlfwayanad.bsky.social · 7d

Arundhati Roy speaks at the launch of her memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me.

#ArundhatiRoy #mothermarycomestome #godofsmallthings #indianliterature #WLF #wayanadliteraturefestival #wayanad #kerala #indianliteraturefestival #keralaliteraturefestival #indianliterature #literature #writer #indianwriters

Wayanad Literature Festival @wlfwayanad.bsky.social · 8d

When Simon Prosser, director of Penguin Books, asked Arundhati Roy to write her memoir.

#WLF #wayanadliteraturefestival #mothermarycomestome #ArundhatiRoy #godofsmallthings #indianliterature #indianliteratureinenglish #keralaliteraturefestival #literature #writer #indianwriters #kerala #wayanad

Wayanad Literature Festival @wlfwayanad.bsky.social · 9d

Keeping quiet is as political as speaking out - Arundhati Roy
Excerpt from #WLF2022 Arundhati Roy in Conversation with Dr Vinod K Jose @vinodkjose.bsky.social

#WLF #wayanadliteraturefestival #keralaliteraturefestival #godofsmallthings #kerala #wayanad #india #ArundhatiRoy #politics #Fascism

Wayanad Literature Festival @wlfwayanad.bsky.social · 9d

Arundhati Roy shares her and her mother's view on men at the launch of her memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me.

#ArundhatiRoy #mothermarycomestome #godofsmallthings #indianliterature #WLF #wayanadliteraturefestival #wayanad #kerala #indianliteraturefestival #keralaliteraturefestival #indianliterature

Wayanad Literature Festival @wlfwayanad.bsky.social · 10d

We are like a plane flying backwards -Arundhati Roy

Excerpt from #WLF2022 Arundhati Roy in Conversation with Dr Vinod K Jose @vinodkjose.bsky.social

#WLF #wayanadliteraturefestival #keralaliteraturefestival #godofsmallthings #kerala #wayanad #india #ArundhatiRoy #politics #indianpolitics

Wayanad Literature Festival @wlfwayanad.bsky.social · 10d

The Beatles and Rock 'n' Roll gave me the courage to run away - Arundhati Roy at the launch of her memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me

#ArundhatiRoy #mothermarycomestome #godofsmallthings #indianliterature #WLF #wayanadliteraturefestival #wayanad #indianliteraturefestival #keralaliteraturefestival

Wayanad Literature Festival @wlfwayanad.bsky.social · 11d

My brother and I were children without an address, they used to say. : Arundhati Roy

Excerpt from #WLF2022 session titled, Things That Can and Cannot Be Said.
#ArundhatiRoy in Conversation with @vinodkjose.bsky.social
#WLF #wayanadliteraturefestival #indianliterature #Kerala #godofsmallthings

Wayanad Literature Festival @wlfwayanad.bsky.social · 11d

Arundhati Roy recalls how Laurie Baker inspired her to study architecture at the launch of her memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me.

#ArundhatiRoy #mothermarycomestome #godofsmallthings #indianliterature #WLF #wayanadliteraturefestival #wayanad #kerala #indianliteraturefestival #keralaliteraturefestival

Wayanad Literature Festival @wlfwayanad.bsky.social · 12d

I had to un-daughter myself to admire my mother : #ArundhatiRoy

Excerpt from #WLF2022 session titled, Things That Can and Cannot Be Said.
Arundhati Roy in Conversation with @vinodkjose.bsky.social

#WLF #wayanadliteraturefestival #indianliterature #indianwriters #godofsmallthings #kerala

Wayanad Literature Festival @wlfwayanad.bsky.social · 13d

We have to remember writers lived through Stalinism - Arundhati Roy

Excerpt from #WLF2022 session titled Things That Can and Cannot Be Said
Arundhati Roy in Conversation with @vinodkjose.bsky.social
#WLF#wayanadliteraturefestival #indianliterature #ArundhatiRoy#godofsmallthings #kerala #politics

Wayanad Literature Festival @wlfwayanad.bsky.social · 14d

If we stop empathising with others, we lose literature’s fundamental business - Arundhati Roy.

Excerpt from #WLF2022 session titled Things That Can and Cannot Be Said
Arundhati Roy in Conversation with @vinodkjose.bsky.social

#WLF #wayanadliteraturefestival #ArundhatiRoy#godofsmallthings

Wayanad Literature Festival @wlfwayanad.bsky.social · 15d

Arundhati Roy Remembers Gaza At the Launch of Her New Book “Mother Mary Comes to Me”

#WLF #wayanadliteraturefestival #indianliterature #keralaliteraturefestival #ArundhatiRoy #indianwriters #godofsmallthings #wayanad #india #politics #Fascism #gaza #umarkhalid #palastine #mothermarycomestome

Wayanad Literature Festival @wlfwayanad.bsky.social · 16d

Arundhati Roy remembers what the Delhi Airport security guard once told her at the launch of her new book, “Mother Mary Comes to Me”

#WLF #wayanadliteraturefestival #indianliterature #ArundhatiRoy #literature #writer #indianwriters #godofsmallthings #kerala #wayanad #india #politics #Fascism