Chandigarh, May 30 -- The Khushwant Singh Litfest scripts its eighth London chapter beginning May 30 at the SOAS Gallery, University of London. Themed Rewilding the Mind: Ecology, Storytelling, and the Future, the fest explores how literature reconnects us to the natural world carrying forward the legacy of author, journalist, scholar, and iconoclast Khushwant Singh.

Acclaimed writer and journalist Rahul Singh, the moving spirit behind the event year-after-year, said the three-city run reflects the litfest's growing global footprint. After London, the fest travels to Oxford on June 3 and makes its debut at Sutton on June 6, widening the arc of a conversation that began in the hills of Kasauli.

The galaxy of speakers across the three cit...