<span style="color: #222222;">12th Jaipur literature festival, considered to be the Kumbh of Literature, began today. Around 500 authors, literateurs and thinkers are participating in the five-day event. Writers from 17 languages are participating this time and the youngest author is just 10 years old. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">  </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">AIR correspondent reports, festival was inaugurated this morning with the echo of NAGARAs and Shehnai's, and singing of  Shruti Vishwanath. In the inaugural session, Nobel laureate Sir Wakey Ramakrishnan addressed on 'The Role of Science in Today's World'. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">On this ocassion, many foreign and Indian writers and artists along with Shashi Tharoor and Deputy Chief Minister of the state Sachin Pilot were present . In another event under the festival, Noted writer Gulzar and his daughter Meghna shared anecdotes of stories in an interaction with Editor Shantanu Ray Chaudhary. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The festival is to host many well known personalities including Prasoon Joshi, Javed Akthar, and many others. A large crowd of youth is attending different sessions to get benefitted of the peak of literary art.</span><br />''