Jaipur, The World’s Best Book Fair

“At the Jaipur Literature Festival, East meets West as it does at no other event in the book world. East and West immediately fall into heated debate about the role of the occupier in Afghanistan, and about why the most recognized South Asian writers are all expatriates from their homelands. Then West bums a smoke. East confesses to a mad crush on the writer U.S. writer Junot Diaz, who was just signing books in the courtyard.”