Jaipur Literature Festival Adds Rahul Akerkar, Simi Garewal and Vishal Bhardwaj to Its 20th-Edition Line-up

Name: Jaipur Literature Festival Adds Rahul Akerkar, Simi Garewal and Vishal Bhardwaj to Its 20th-Edition Line-up — Hospemag
Start: 2027-01-14T10:00:00+0530
End: 2027-01-18T18:00:00+0530
Location: Hotel Clarks Amer

Thursday, January 14, 2027 10:00 AM 10:00
Monday, January 18, 2027 6:00 PM 18:00

Hotel Clarks Amer Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg, Malviya Nagar Jaipur, Rajasthan India (map)

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The 20th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival, presented by Vedanta, will take place from 14 to 18 January 2027 at Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur. The festival has added restaurateur Rahul Akerkar, actor and television personality Simi Garewal and filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj to its line-up, together with Mumbai voices including poet and cultural theorist Ranjit Hoskote, singer Rekha Bharadwaj, author Jeet Thayil, actor Joy Sengupta, author and podcaster Shunali Khullar Shroff, Isheeta Ganguly, Namita Dubey, Mazda Turel, Kiran Manral and Hindi author and storyteller Divya Prakash Dubey.

The names were announced at a preview at The Quorum, Mumbai. Sanjoy K. Roy, Managing Director of Teamwork Arts and producer of the festival, said: “Since its inception, the Jaipur Literature Festival has welcomed over 5 million visitors and brought together more than 8,000 writers, speakers and artists, reaching an estimated global audience of over 1 billion. What began as a gathering in Jaipur has grown into a global platform for literature, ideas and cultural exchange. As we mark our 20th edition, we remain committed to making literature and knowledge accessible to all and bringing diverse voices together.”

The preview included the launch of Ashwin Sanghi’s latest book, The Blind Fury, unveiled in the presence of Sanghi, Shunali Khullar Shroff, Roy and Saloni Puri, Director of Programming at The Quorum, followed by a conversation titled The Art of the Whodunnit.

The forthcoming edition’s line-up also includes Olga Tokarczuk, Sudha Murty, James Wood, Esther Duflo, Neil MacGregor, Claire Messud, Sir Paul Nurse, Akshata Murty and Mishal Husain, together with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Liaquat Ahamed; Edmund Richardson, winner of the 2026 Baillie Gifford Prize for Alexander: God, King, Man; Antonia Senior, a finalist for the 2026 Orwell Prize for Political Writing; Guardian culture writer Charlotte Higgins; Amitabh Kant, former G20 Sherpa and CEO of NITI Aayog; economist Michael Greenstone of the University of Chicago; and journalist and author Matthew Campbell. Also named are chef Asma Khan; Himanshu Saini, chef patron of Dubai’s three-Michelin-starred Trèsind Studio; Australian author Anita Heiss; poet and essayist Tishani Doshi; and writer and screenwriter Raam Mori, among others.