The Bhopal Literature and Art Festival starts at Bharat Bhavan

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The Bhopal Literature and Art Festival starts at Bharat Bhavan

Sunday, 13 January 2019 | Staff Reporter | Bhopal

The Bhopal Literature and Art Festival organised by Society for Culture and Environment commenced on Saturday at Bharat Bhavan. The festival began with mesmerising classical Dhrupad singing performance by the famous Gundecha Brothers who sang their classical compositions such as Toote Sakal Banga and more along with Saraswati Vandana.

All the dignitaries included Vijay Lakshmi Sadho, Cultural Minister of MP, Pawan Verma, Amitabh Kant from NITI Aayog,  John Bowles, Art Collector from USA, Anthony Desa, Raghav Chandra, Director of BLF, Meera Das, co-director of BLF, Renu Tiwari, Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Alphons Kannanthanam, member of Rajya Sabha cum author of book, India 2017.

Sushila Devi Award organised by Ratan LaL Foundation was given to Namita Gokhale for her book, Things To Leave Behind (The story of Kumaon). She was also given a reward of Rs 2 Lakhs. She was awarded by the Chief Guest of the event, Alphons Kannanthanam and Vijayalakshmi Sadho.

Amitabh Kant, CEO of NITI Ayog said, “India made itself very complex place to do a business. Over a year we never manufactured product for global market. If we want growth and jobs for young generation we have to focus on manufacturing products for global market.”

He was addressing the gathering at the first session 'The path Ahead: Transformative Ideas for India, a panel discussion.' Comptroller and Auditor General of India Rajiv Mehrishi, Economist Ila Patnaik were also part of this discussion as panelist. Professor of Economics Santosh Mehrotra was moderating the discussion.

Amitabh Kant further said that India need to focus on Digitisation of manufacturing process to achieve its goals. We need to achieve speedy growth in urbanisation with innovative ways.

Ila Patnaik said, “I agree with Amitabh’s point that India cannot beat by following china model. China did it 25 years ago. Technology is very different today.” She also added that Government should out of the process of interviewing but regulating the sectors. Just like software sector. The sector grew without help of government and leading in global market. Government need to get out from command and control mind set. Let people choose the money flaws. Rajiv Mehrishi concluded the session.

The next session was revolved around 'The London Jungle Book'. Gond artist Bhajju Shyam, Publisher Gita Wolf, Art curator Anubhav Nath, John Bowles and animator and researcher Tara Douglas were present in the session as panelist.

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