17–19 November 2011

Kerala, India

International writers included Jung Chang, Rukmini Nair, Germaine Greer, K. Satchidanandan, Simon Armitage and Anita Nair.

We love stories. We love big ideas and discoveries and good company. The second edition of Jay Festival Keralacelebrated astonishing people who have the capacity to use words to make the world afresh, and to change our minds. It’s the biggest buzz imaginable. And it was free. We brought the speakers, the food and the time. All we needed was you.

Thank you for coming. Watch NewsX special: Making Hay in Kerala.

Hay Festival Kerala

Hay Festival Kerala is produced with Teamwork Productions.

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    Fair Trade Alliance Kerala

    While visiting the festival, visit sustainable organic multi-crop farms, and witness the attempts of a group of Kerala farmers to recapture their homestead farming traditions against the onslaught of mono-crop commercial agriculture. Their practices are critical to protect the biodiversity of the Nilgiri Biosphere.

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  • Hay Festival Dhaka 2011

    Following Hay Festival Kerala, on 21 November please join us for a one-day pilot festival bringing together writers and thinkers from Bangladesh and Britain to share stories and ideas in the spirit of Rabindranath Tagore in this his 150th anniversary year.

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    Geldof and Sting

    There was a spectacular end to the inaugural Hay Festival held in Trivandrum, Kerala in India in 2010.

    Bob Geldof joined on stage by Sting for festival finale in Kerala

  • Welsh voices at Hay Festival Kerala 2010

    National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke plus Menna Elfyn and Paul Henry took part in the festival, which was held at the Kanakakunnu Palace.

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2011 highlights

  • Shashi Tharoor
  • Rukmini Nair
  • Anupama Raju
  • Jung Chang
  • K. Satchidanandan
  • Simon Armitage
  • Arundhati Subramaniam
  • Simon Singh
  • Anna Funder
  • Germaine Greer
  • Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
  • Anita Nair
  • and many others...

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