Proust’s madeleines are famous for evoking memories of place and time. To feel, and then articulate, the aura of a place so that readers can feel themselves there, demands a very special use of words. Writers who can project the essence of nature, of urban and rural, of heat and cold, desert and plain, encountered in their travels, are justifiably world famous, their descriptions regarded as a literary art form.

Panelists : Rakshanda Jalil, Salil Tripathi, William Dalrymple

Chair : Vir Sanghvi

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  Rakhshanda Jalil

  India

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  Salil Tripathi

  England

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  William Dalrymple

  Scotland

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  Vir Sanghvi

  India