Couldn’t resist linking to this NPR piece about a writer’s conference in India if only for the stinger in the tail:
“There are so many brilliant young, old and middle-aged people across India who are really tired of the trivialization of things,” Gokhale says. “This festival proves that there are a lot of very, very bright Indians and other very bright people from around the world who want a relief from the banal stupidity that surrounds a lot of what they read in magazines or see on TV.”