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The peaceful environs of the Kanakakunnu Palace in Trivandrum has come alive with the rustle of literature. Writers from across the world,readers from the city and literary buffs from the rest of India have converged on the grounds to be part of the buzz that is the Hay Festival. An annual fixture in the calendar of Hay-on-Wye village in Wales for 20 years,this is the first time the literary event has travelled to India. Among the melee of figures who swarm the handsome palace,there is Mughal William Dalrymple,politician-author Mani Shankar Aiyar,poet K Satchidanandan,Gillian Clarke,considered among the best poets of Welsh literature,Bob Geldof,the Irish singer,songwriter and author,as well as Sebastian Faulks,Basharat Peer,Marcus du Sautoy,Tishani Doshi and Vikram Seth. The festival will end on November 14.
Marcus du Sautoys session opened to a packed house on Friday not surprising since this professor of Mathematics at Oxford University has made numbers fun in his book The Num8er My5teries. The book is for everybody from the age of one to 101, he says over telephone. Apart from how to win at Monopoly to winning a lottery,the book has unsolved mathematical questions. If one could solve any of those,one could win one million dollars in prize, he says,adding that his book talks about how maths could be used as a tool to solve the worlds problems.
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