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Puri Literary Festival

A festival of literature and ideas on India's eastern coast, bringing writers, thinkers, policymakers and readers into a single conversation, in the conviction that ideas travel furthest when culture carries them.

Ideas in public
Sessions on history, memory, faith, gender, governance and contemporary India.
Rooted in Odisha
Held in the temple town of Puri, with the support of national and state cultural institutions.
A national stage
The festival has curated sessions at the New Delhi World Book Fair's Festival of Festivals.
35+ partners
Government, public sector, industry, universities and media.

Festival partners and sponsors

The festival's partners are listed alongside AFPR's institutional collaborators.

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