JLF Day 4: Science, Osama bin Laden and calls for courageous journalism

Highlight of the day was the institution of an award by the writers' organisation PEN for courageous reporting, in memory of the murdered journalist Gauri Lankesh

On the fourth day of the eleventh Jaipur Literature Festival, it turned back to its roots -- with sessions on the craft of novel-writing, on the methods of investigative journalism, sea birds, music culture, botany, Egyptian queens, maritime policy and rivers, tigers, and Virginia Woolf. 

Early in the day, Suki Kim and Michael Rezendes were in conversation with Charlie English. Kim is a South Korean journalist who went undercover in North Korea to report on how the Pyongyang elite lived their lives and saw the world; Michael Rezendes is, of course, the reporter who worked on the investigations of child