India, Feb. 3 -- This year, the Jaipur Literature Festival has organized many sessions in solidarity with Palestine. How do you feel about that?

First of all, I am honoured to be here at this literature festival, which has sessions on a wide range of subjects like food, history, art and geopolitics. But this is not full solidarity with Palestine. I am invited as a friend of the festival. I am not a speaker here. They have many sessions about the challenges in West Asia after the Gaza war, and almost all of the speakers are foreigners. But I am thankful to Sanjoy K Roy of Teamwork Arts for speaking about Palestine in his speech at the inauguration and for mentioning that I am here.

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