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The highly impressive list of speakers includes Martin Amis, William Dalrymple, Germaine Greer and Brigid Keenan, the former fashion editor of The Observer, in London, who recently published the highly-entertaining Diplomatic Baggage. The Festival is organized by 23-year old Pablo Ganguli, who describes himself as cultural entrepreneur and impresario (his many interests range from memory and culture and conflict through to death, globalization and training and research). Ganguli is founder of Kitab, India's international literary and media festival, sponsored jointly by The Hindustan Times and The Times of London (participants included Goldie Hawn and Shashi Tharoor).