Monday 19 November 2018

Mumbai Literature Festival: Day 3

1. The Voices Inside My Head: Chanelling my inner Wodehouse inner Fleming and inner Self.
Sebastian Faulks in  conversation with Tishani Doshi 

1.Literature explains our national identity.
2.Literature gives the nation a good version of its story.
3. James Bond was introduced by Ian Fleming in 1950 Austerity Britain.
4. There is no realistic plot that gives the reader its True identity.
5.  Literary writing of the past is our History that echoes the past and throws a shadow on the future.


2. The Inquisition. Grilling the interrogator. 
Karan Thapar in conversation with Sagarika Ghose.


                                                           Experience In Journalism 



Take Away

Current World: Journalism generates Heat rather than shed Light 




3. Testing Times: Why am i a Liberal. Sagarika Ghose, Priyanka Pathak Narain, Ravi Agrawal. 
Chair: Mihir Sharma

Liberalism = (Individual Freedom+Liberty +Free Speech+Expression).
Liberalism: Tradition of accepting different points of view.



Vilification on Liberal Press affects individual rights to Life and Liberty

Liberal Press: Vilified when it takes a stand against the Indian Constitution

No matter what cultural expression and freedom of choice should not be curtailed. 


4. The Language Of Science. Matt Ridley in conversation with Ishrat Syyed. 

Science is the search of new mystery and not a catalog of facts. Uncovering a deep mystery needs to be the goal. Science is taking a rainbow and looking at it in different directions. 

5. The Free Voice: Ravish Kumar in conversation with Rajdeep Dardesai

                                                                  Take Away

                                   News Today: By The TRP For TRP To TRP 
                                                                  
                                                                    TRP Driven News 

                         Z: Last Alphabet Comes up with TRP and goes down in news quality



TRP Driven News: Inspired Narrative

News inorder to make content entertaining gets inspired by Serials and Soaps

News Today aka Writing for Television Serials and Soaps 



Narratives In News: Tailor made to suit Best Interest















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