India, Jan. 26 -- On December 14, about 50 people gathered at Walking Bookfairs, Bhubaneswar, to board a bus to Puri for the third edition of India's first Travel Writing Festival. Organised by the founders of the bookshop, Akshaya Bahibala and Satabdi Sambedna, it continues to be a festival for the people and by the people. This time, the event hosted literary figures like Jerry Pinto, Chandrahas Choudhury, Ravi Singh, Tathagata Satpathy and Adyasha Satpathy, Ravi Mantha, Sampad Patnaik, Sophia Simon, Belal Jawhara, Swati Murmu, Mani Mahesh Aurora, and documentary filmmaker Sanjay Kak.

Ravi Singh, who heads the independent publishing house, Speaking Tiger Books, stated that the literary event was different from others in the country as ...