READ DAILY DEFENCE RELATED PRINT MEDIA NEWS: OPEN BLOG FOR MORE NEWS CLICK ON LINK sanjhamorcha2009.blogspot.in ################################### 2-day lit fest in Chandigarh from Nov 23 Vandana Shukla Tribune News Service ****************************************** Chandigarh, November 21 Chandigarhians often complain of living in a city that lacks a “soul”. Now they have more than enough of it. After Chandigarh Literature Festival and Chandigarh Book Fair held this month, comes Literati-2013, the two-day lit fest beginning November 23. Organised by the Chandigarh Literary Society, which organised book launches and meet-the-author events through the year, as a prelude to Literati-2013, says it is going to be an annual feature. “It is going to offer a platform for talented regional writers and thinkers, and an exposure of world class authors to an extremely intelligent audience,” says Sumita Misra, chairperson of the society. The festival will begin with the keynote address “In Search of the Authentic” by Bhaskar Ghose at Sukhna lake, the much-loved landmark of the city. Two consecutive sessions through the day will host a number of reading sessions by authors - upcoming and established - book launches, poetry reading in Hindi and Punjabi and sessions on a wide range of issues and themes. Religion and politics, exotica as the new erotica, contexts and contours of writing, dissent, discourse and diaspora, writing of another kind and the four letter word between love and hate are some of the sessions that will keep over a dozen authors engaged in discussions and deliberations and interaction with the book-loving audience. The evening will conclude with a concert by Hari and Sukhmani at Tagore theatre. Sunday will keep the audience and the authors engaged in sessions addressing the challenges of humour, women and the paradox of modernity, narrative, mind and memory and reading between the lines. The issue of Kashmiri Pundits and their exodus from the valley will be discussed by Rahul Pandita, author of Our Moon Has Blood Clots, the book that challenges the popular perspective on the issue. A book written by one of the scholars of IIAS, Shimla, on the Kashmir issue by Manisha Gangahar will be released. Madhav Kaushik will host a couple of engaging sessions on the contemporary trends in Hindi literature “samkaleen sahitya ki chunautiyan” and “nai awazein.” Ashwin Sanghi, author of “Chanakyas Chant,” a political thriller with roots in ancient Mauryan history, a bestseller that won Crossword-Vodafone Popular Choice Award 2010, will address two sessions. Manju Kapur, author of four novels, winner of Commonwealth Writers Prize for her first novel “Difficult Daughters” in 1999 will explore the role of memory in her narrative in the session titled narrative mind and memory on Sunday. One of the youngest writers, Tishaa Khosla is already among the bestsellers with her books “Pink or Black” and “Pink or Black2”, and Jaideep Bhoosreddy, who wrote Dead Underground a spy fiction thriller, among one of the youngest novelists in the country, will represent the changing trends in literature.tribuneindia/2013/20131122/nation.htm#16
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