The DSC Jaipur Literature Festival opened in India on 20 January 2012, and concludes today. Billed as “the largest literary festival in the Asia-Pacific” it had already provoked heated debate before it got underway – the Festival is sponsored by two of the world’s most heavily criticised mining/mineral companies, Rio Tinto and Tata.
See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=11452&l=1.