Varma, Panda, Anand, Mishra to be honoured

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Varma, Panda, Anand, Mishra to be honoured

Friday, 19 July 2019 | PNS | BHUBANESWAR

Noted authors Pavan K Varma, Rajendra Kishore Panda, Paro Anand and Kedar Mishra will be awarded for their literary contributions at the three-day Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF) here commencing from Friday (July 19).

With “Gandhi’s Idea of India: Truth, Harmony, Nonviolence” as its central theme, the KLF will pay tribute to the Father of the Nation through contemporary reflections on his ideas and is set to trigger global and national discussions on his work and ideas through literature, lived experience, politics, art, film, business, media and sports.

Around 250 speakers, poets, musicians, artists and performers will feature in the fourth edition of the festival during innovative sessions on radio, poetry recitation, short story, lyrics and cinema. Concurrently, the Kalinga Art Festival will showcase works of 60 artists from Odisha and India. Four prestigious awards will be conferred and more than 30 national and international books/publications will be released.

KLF founder director Rashmi Ranjan Parida said that as Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary is being celebrated this year, “it is only fitting to pay tribute to him, his ideas and reflect upon them in contemporary times”.

The key sessions will be on topics such cultural nationalism, Gandhigiri, Generation Y, Odisha, Media Children, Women, Transgenders, Kamasutra, Citizen’s Engagement, Cinema, Sports, Ethics, Discrimination, Revolutions, Peace-building, Conflict Resolution and Harmony.

The writers, poets, speakers and performers at the festival will include Bhawana Somaaya, Bhavani B Iyer, Christopher C Doyle, Namita Gokhale, Nalini Mehta, Nambi Narayanan, Pavan K Verma, Priya Somaiya, Pushpesh Pant, Rakhshanda Jalil, Sathya Saran, Saira Shah Halim, Tamal Bandopadhya and Yashwant Sinha, among

others.

There will be cultural programmes to showcase Odisha’s art, culture and literature on each day of the event. Among other highlights will be the story-telling session “Dastan-E-Mantoiyat” by Syed Shadab Hussain and Meera Rizvi and the screening of Oscar-nominated director Ashvin Kumar’s “No Fathers In Kashmir”.

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