The twin pulls of India and Israel were the focus of a session including Jewish Indian writing.
During the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) 2018 at Diggi Palace, Esther David (left), author of Shalom (an Indian Jewish Fiction), speaks with A Sethumadhavan, also known as Sethu (right).
One is a member of India’s Bene Israel community, which is largely centered in western India, and the other is a Kerala-based writer who has written about the Malabari Jews. They focused on a population whose numbers may be diminishing in India, but who has recently been in the news because of the country’s developing affinity with Israel during a session titled Shalom: Indian Jewish Fiction.
