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At the Jaipur Festival: Indian astrology, neon-lit nights and overbearing families

The Forum at the Jaipur Literature Festival: why do stars and families still have such a hold over people in India? Plus the romance of artificial light in photography.

A second Forum programme recorded in the extraordinary atmosphere of the Jaipur Literature Festival with a lively audience and three prominent female creative thinkers talking about what rules Indian lives: the stars in the sky, the landscapes that fill their vision or the families that surround them?

Illustration by Emily Kasriel:Guided by the stars we send postcards illuminated artificially.

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