Art & Culture

&lt;p id=&quot;p_1&quot;&gt;&lt;iframe src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/DXteXo3czso&quot; width=&quot;690&quot; height=&quot;500&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p id=&quot;p_2&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Also read: 7 nuggets of wisdom from Margaret Atwood, the writers' writer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p id=&quot;p_3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On Justin Trudeau&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p id=&quot;p_4&quot;&gt;&quot;We have a prime minister who's so cool, we still haven't gotten used to it.&quot; Atwood was all praises for the spunky new face of the Canadian government, described by her as &quot;hip and sexy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p id=&quot;p_5&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On Game of Thrones&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p id=&quot;p_6&quot;&gt;&quot;Game of Thrones dragons are pretty standard flamethrowers, they don't have conversations.&quot; The author contested that the fantastic dragons in Game of Thrones fell flat in comparison to the brilliant depiction of the mythical creatures by Ursula Le Guin - dragons that were equally magical when conversing as when breathing fire.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p id=&quot;p_7&quot;&gt;Read more &lt;span style=&quot;color: #3366ff;&quot;&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;color: #3366ff;&quot; title=&quot;here&quot; href=&quot;http://www.dailyo.in/arts/jlf2016-margaret-atwood-jaipur-literature-festival-the-heart-goes-last-dystopian-fiction-canada/story/1/8608.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

The best of JLF 2016: What did people look forward to?

Margaret Atwood, Ruskin Bond and several other literary giants thrilled the audience.