Video | At the 2025 Kerala Literature Festival
The Hindu
Snippets from the 2025 Kerala Literature Festival
Imperilled worlds, real and imaginary, came alive in multiple discussions starring as many as six Booker Prize winners and nominees at the eighth edition of the Kerala Literature Festival.
At the four-day festival, oft-touted as Asia’s largest festival of letters with 380 sessions, 600 speakers and over six lakh participants, some of the most pressing issues of today — from war, migration, loss, and belonging, to race, gender, and Donald Trump — and the role of stories in shaping our world, were discussed within the large, packed marquees erected on the tawny sands of Kozhikode beach.
Here’s a quick behind the scenes look.

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