helpless minds enduring the suppression of the army were some of the highpoints of the chatjournalism literature and more one of the strongest panels of the festival got together to discuss literary journalism and they did not disappoint the participants david remnick philip gourevitch joseph lelyveld katherine boo and jason burke all agreed to the moderator samanth subramanians explanation of the term as something that tells a story through many dimensions that any other form cannot it is deeply rooted and loaded with facts the journalistturnedauthors took turns to express their respective views on the thin line of difference between journalism and literature how different is writing a novel from simply running a quote how important it is to spend time with the characters observing them avoiding the inclusion of documentary evidences and most importantly letting the story take a shape of its own katherine boo the author of soon to be released behind the beautiful forevers questioned the idea using the first person narrative while writing a novel about the journalistic experiences to which philip gourevitch disagreed he explained the narrative may have an i but it shouldnt have a me one must be a guide to the reader tell him why the issue is being discussed also the first person is an incredible memoirist tool but yes i can be abused resulting in selfindulgent writingthe art of the playwright seats in the front lawns had already been hijacked because the session in line was the one in which two of britains top playwrights tom stoppard and david hare would discuss the art of writing scripts for plays and cinema knighted in the year 1997 stoppard is best known for writing pathbreaking plays like arcadia the coast of utopia and every good boy deserves favour as well as writing the screenplay for the oscar winning movie shakespeare in love the source of passion for theatre tom said was a historical accident he made it clear that his fascination for theatre and love of the language was greater than writing for cinema david hare on the other hand rose to limelight by writing scripts for plays like amys view plenty and the secret rapture and screenplays for films like the hours and the reader he believed his understanding of dramatizing the society through the medium of theatre worked and worked well the two playwrights hence put up a brilliant onehour act for an audience that sat patiently listening to them in awe keeping all its controversies aside i can say that literature has indeed seeped its way into more than just books a festival like this not only gives young readers and writers a chance to meet their idols but encourages new ideas and serves as a great learning experience arunimamazumdarindiatimescoin