Australian-born Clive James, appointed a CBE for services to literature and media, is a published poet, novelist and author of a string of best-selling memoirs.

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Various speakers took the floor including Kiran Manandhar, Chancellor of the Nepal Academy of Fine Arts and Ram Kumar Panday, President of PEN Nepal and papers were presented on freedom of expression in literature, cinema and new media.

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Henry Jenkins is a professor of literature and director of the Comparative Media Studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Unfortunately, instead of the tell all (and at nauseam) approach being confined strictly to social media where it rightly belongs, it bleeds over into blogging and journalism and literature and film-making and more or less any outlet that can be commandeered as a soapbox.

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