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Nalin Mehta, Deepa Malik, Devendra Jhajharia and Boria Majumdar | Olympics and the India Story

Olympics and the India Story: Nalin Mehta, Deepa Malik, Devendra Jhajharia and Boria Majumdar Nalin Mehta is Executive Editor of the Times of India (online). He is an award-winning social scientist, journalist and author who has taught and held senior research positions at universities and international institutions in Switzerland, Singapore, Australia and India. His books include Behind a Billion Screens: What Television Tells Us About Modern India, longlisted for Business Book of the Year, Tata Literary Live 2015, and India on Television: How Satellite News Channels Changed the Ways We Think and Act, which won the 2008 Asian Publishing Award, 2008. His new book, Dreams of a Billion: India and the Olympics Games, co-written with Boria Majumdar, will be published in 2020. Deepa Malik is the winner of five President of India awards, four Limca World Records, three international awards, 68 national and state medals and 23 international medals. A Padma Shri, Khel Ratna and Arjuna awardee, Dr. Malik is India’s first paraplegic woman biker, swimmer, rallyist and the country’s first ever female Paralympic medalist, enabling people with disabilities through her foundation Wheeling Happiness. Devendra Jhajharia is an Indian Paralympic javelin thrower. He is the first Indian Paralympian to win two gold medals at the Paralympics, he won his first gold in the javelin throw at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, becoming only the second gold medalist at the Paralympics for his country. At the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, he won a second gold medal in the same event, bettering his previous record. He is also the recipient of numerous national awards. Boria Majumdar, a Rhodes scholar, is the author of multiple books on Indian sport and its history. His most recent work, Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians, was awarded the Rabindra Puraskar for Literature in 2018. He is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Central Lancashire and Adjunct Professor, Monash University, Melbourne. He also serves as Consulting Editor, Sports, for the India Today Group. India’s Olympic Story traces India's involvement in the world's most renowned sporting event to the First World War, based on newly-found documents at the Public Records Office in London. This session, featuring the landmark book's authors Nalin Mehta and Boria Majumdar alongside athletes Deepa Malik, Devendra Jhajharia, will delve into the stories behind some of our sporting stars who became national icons and their tales of triumph and indomitable will. It will encapsulate India's journey told through the prism of sport. Presented by UFO Moviez THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL Described as the 'greatest literary show on Earth', the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas. The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access. Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world's greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue. Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur. Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Beatty and Yan Martel, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer, Colson Whitehead and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary luminaries including Amish Tripathi, Chima¬manda Ngozi Adichie, Vikram Chandra and Vikram Seth. The Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 33 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally. Link to our website: https://www.jaipurliteraturefestival.org Link to Jaipur Literature Festival 2018 sessions: https://bit.ly/3bZZgaD Social media links: Facebook:   / jaipurlitfes.  . Twitter:   / jaipurlitfest   Instagram:   / jaipurlitfest