The Coimbatore Literary Festival Opens February 23rd (India)

19 February 2013
The Coimbatore Literary Festival Opens February 23rd (India)
Date: 23 - 24 February 2013

Coimbatore Literary Festival (CLF) is being organised by Sahitya, in association with Kumaraguru College of Technology on 23-24 February, 2013 at Kasthuri Sreenivasan Trust Auditorium. CLF intends to discuss, decipher and discover literature, to rekindle the past and capture its present and make it a moment of transition and change in the literary landscape of Coimbatore. Various literary personalities will fly in to Coimbatore to 'Celebrate Indian Writing' which will uphold the literary and cultural fabric of Coimbatore

Have you registered for CLF yet? Here's what you'll be treated to: readings, conversations, panel discussions, talks, music, dance and from all over India.
  • The CLF camp is excited to have Mr. Marabin Maindan Muthaiah, renowned Tamil writer/poet with us. His insights about tamil literature and literary personlaties will be immense and inspiring!
  • Catch "The Magical World of Children's Writing" by Mrs. Shobha Vishwanath, Publishing Director of Karadi Tales on 23 - 24 February 2013.
  • "Touching Gold" - a history of Coimbatore Book Club by Air Cdre (Retd.) Minoo Vania on 23-24 February 2013.
  • Vikram Sampath (Author of Voice of Veena, My Name is Gauhar Jaan and Splendours of Royal Mysore) joins us in a conversation with Latha Anantharaman on 24 February 2013.
  • "My Dear Bapu" - a reading session of letters exchanged between Rajaji and Gandhiji by Mr. Yog Japee of Theatre Y, Chennai edited by Mr. Gopalkrishna Gandhi at Coimbatore Literary Festival on 23 February 2013.
  • Girish Karnad's "The Broken Images" - play reading by Mrs. Shashi Gulati and Mrs Bulbul Vania of Coimbathore Theatre Group on 23 February 2013.
  • "Indian Writing and Question of Belonging" - Dr. K Srilata, Poet, Writer, Translator and Professor at IIT Madras on 23 February 2013. 
"The Voices Never Stop" - Shobhana Kumar published by Writers Workshop will also be released at Coimbatore Literary Festival on 23 February 2013. "The Voices Never Stop is a quiet poetic journey into the inner recesses of the spirit that drives man and woman alike." - Justice V R Krishna Iyer, Former Judge, Supreme Court of India

Celebrate Indian Writing from around the country in the Manchester of South India. Visit our Facebook page for updates, and get in touch with us to register.


CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries: clf.sahitya@gmail.com or call +919894066256

Website: https://www.facebook.com/CoimbatoreLiteraryFest
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