Sahita Akademi All-India Young Writers' Festival Opens Today (New Delhi, India)

03 October 2012
Sahita Akademi All-India Young Writers' Festival Opens Today (New Delhi, India)
Date: 4 - 5 October 2012

Sahitya Akademi organizes an All India Young Writers' Festival on 4-5 October 2012 in the Sahitya Akademi Auditorium, Rabindra Bhavan, 35 Ferozeshah Road, New Delhi. All are invited.

PROGRAMME:
  • Welcome: K. Sreenivasarao, Secretary In-Charge, Sahitya Akademi
  • Presidential address: Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari, Vice President, Sahitya Akademi
  • Inauguration: Namwar Singh, eminent Hindi crtic
  • Guest of honour: Keki N. Daruwalla, eminent English writer
  • Readings: Pratim Borua (Assamese), Sridala Swami (English), Nishant (Hindi), Renuka Nidagundi (Kannada), Praveen Kashyap (Maithili), Vinod Swami (Rajasthani), Heena Agnani (Sindhi), and Ambar (Urdu)
4 October 2012
  • First session (2pm - 3:30pm): Story reading
  • Second session (4pm - 6pmp): Poet's meet
5 October 2012
  • Third session (10am - 11:30am): Poetry - the new challenges
  • Fourth session (12nn - 1:30pm): Story reading
  • Fifth session (2:30pm - 4pm): Issues in new fiction
  • Sixth session (4:30pm - 6pm): Poet's meet
RSVP: 011-2338 66 26/27/28

Download: full programme

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries: sahityaakademisales@vsnl.net

Website: http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in
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