FEATURING AN ARRAY OF SPEAKERS

On Sunday, March 13, day four of this year’s edition of the onground Jaipur Literature Festival unfolded at its usual ecstatic pace.

The previous day saw a session that featured the Member of Parliament and bestselling author, Shashi Tharoor in conversation with journalist, author and columnist Vir Sanghvi. The fourth day of the literary extravaganza opened at the Front Lawn with a yoga session by Nutrition Consultant and Yoga Teacher, Shikha Mehra.

Mehra began her practice by demonstrating body breath awareness and a flow routine that awakens the entire body activates the muscles, reduces stiffness and tension in the body and mind. The session ended with a pacifying practice of pranayama.

Spreading some morning bliss to the rich festival, the stage was graced by The Aahvaan Project where the group presented a philosophy of love, humanity, and kindness, creating a space for harmony with their unique ability of storytelling via music.

Deeply moved by the words of Kabir, musicians Sumit Balakrishnan, Anirban Gosh, Vedi Sinha, Varun Gupta and Nikhil Vasudevan represented a performance that created a space for harmony in the rigmarole of everyday life.

At the session, Padel talked about her book, “Where The Serpent Lives” and read a few passages from it while Sinha proceeded to read excerpts from her work, “Wild and Wilful”. On how humans should engage with forests, Sinha noted, “The thing to be afraid of in the forest is… if you keep the boundary they [animals] respect you and I don’t think people  Alw ays respect boundaries.”