The second day of the first ever Kathamandu Literary Jatra started with a slight hiccup as the sessions had to be shuffled around because William Dalrymple, the acclaimed travel writer and one of the international speakers at the fest missed his flight.[break]
His session on ‘Narratives as a Window to History’ which was scheduled to be held at 10 am took place at 1:30 pm.
Day two of the Jatra was packed with interesting sessions that ranged from discussion on being a women writer, legacy of Ashoka Maurya and the portrayal of Dalits in Nepali literature among many others.
In a session titled ‘The New age of News’, Nepali journalist Kunda Dixit, Akhilesh Upadhyay and Prashant Jha conversed with Pakistani writer-journalist Mohammed Hanif and Indian journalist-writer Tarun Tejpal about the changing face of news in today’s world.
The popular national and international journalists spoke about their personal experiences and the rise in popularity in online journalism which was gaining popularity in the West. But they were quick to point out that this didn’t necessary translate into the death of print journalism, which is gaining popularity in Nepal.
Along with the session on literature, the Jatra also has different parallel events which includes heritage walk around Patan, poetry recitation in different languages and an exhibition titled Retelling History presented by photo.circle around the Manga Hiti at the Patan Durbar Square.
The revised edition of the well loved children’s book Adventures of a Nepali Frog by Kanak Mani Dixit was also launched on the second day of the Jatra.
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