Namita Gokhale, William Dalrymple, Sanjoy K. Roy, The Royal Opera House Mumbai and Avid Learning proudly present the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival 2018 Mumbai Preview. The evening will include a reading from White Mughals by author William Dalrymple along with renditions by vocalist Vidya Shah. Dalrymple will read from a section on the celebrated and tragic love story of James Achilles Kirpatrick, 18th-century British Resident to the Hyderabadi court, and noblewoman Khair-un-Nissa, while Shah will punctuate the compelling narration with lilting music from the courts of colonial Hyderabad and the poetry of Mah Laqa Bai Chanda, the great poet and courtesan of that time.
William Dalrymple is a bestselling author of “In Xanadu”, “City of Djinns”, “From the Holy Mountain”, “White Mughals”, “The Last Mughal”, “Nine Lives”, and most recently, “Return of a King: An Indian Army in Afghanistan”. He has won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the French Prix d’Astrolabe, the Wolfson Prize for History, the Scottish Book of the Year Award, the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Asia House Award for Asian Literature, the Vodafone/Crossword Award for nonfiction, and has, prior to the shortlisting of “Return of a King”, been longlisted three times for the Samuel Johnson Prize. The Italian edition of “Return of a King” won the 2015 Hemingway Prize and the prestigious Kapuściński Prize for Literary Reportage. In September 2016, a Hindustani translation of “The Last Mughal” was released as “Aakhri Mughal”. His latest book is “Kohinoor”, co-written with Anita Anand. Dalrymple is one of the founders and a co-director of the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival.
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