South Asian literary duel highlights festival boom

Readers and writers show growing hunger for live events in internet age

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Crowds line up for entry to the Jaipur tent in the piazza of the British Library. (Photo by Stuart Arnitt)

JOHN KRICH, Contributing writer

LONDON -- On either side of the River Thames, two nations often in conflict were recently unified by a single topic, with simultaneous panels sharing stories of the event that gave birth to both: the partition of British India into India and Pakistan in 1947.

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