JLF Day 1: Security worries, 'social business' and an Instagram poet

The festival was opened, instead of by a politician, by the travel writer Pico Iyer

The eleventh edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival -- now sponsored by Zee, and thus being called by organisers Zee JLF -- began in Jaipur on Thursday amid tight security. The Rajasthan Police are over-stretched: besides JLF, always a magnet for protestors, they also have to deal with Republic Day security, various by-elections, and of course the release of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's' Padmaavat. The Karni Sena, an organisation that claims to represent Rajputs and has led the violent protests against the Bhansali movie has also targeted JLF because of the presence on the announced festival programme of Prasoon Joshi, the