By Tricitynews
Chandigarh 16th November:- One of region’s premier
celebration of writers, readers and the written world, Literati 2019, shall be
opening on Saturday 23rd November at its regular prestine lawns
of the lake club on the banks of Sukhna Lake.
The two days of Literati
organized by Chandigarh Literary Society (CLS), celebrates keynotes, panels,
interviews, performances, participatory activities, at the Lake Club, and shall
open with the inaugural keynote by renowned economist and author, Padamshree S
Bibek Debroy, Chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council.
The deliberations shall
satiate every section including children for whom special writing workshops
with established authors have been planned, besides bollywood, poetry, mythology
with sprinkle of English, Hindi, Panjabi and Urdu.
Well known London-based
English poet, Sudeep Sen, whose works have been translated in many languages
around the world, shall share the panel with Dr Sumita Misra on “That Elusie
Poetic Flavour”.
You could get to meet an
engineer, innovator and educator who inspired Aamir Khan’s character in 3
Idiots, Sonam Wangchuk would
be another highlight at Literati on the first day afternoon.
Rajshekhar Vundru IAS will speak
about his book on Dr BR Ambedkar.
Panjabi session on
revival of the legendary Panjabi movie, Chann Pardesi, shall feature Raj
Babbar, Subhash Sehgal, JS Cheema, Manmohan Singh, Chitratha Singh.
Vineet Bajpai and Deep
Haldar would touch upon history and mythology session with another popular writer Ravinder Singh and Sunanda Mehta, author of ‘The Mystery
of Sunanda Pushakar’s Life and Death’ shall hold the stage on the second day.
Pre- and Post 370 would
be another session of current interest with writers like Sidhartha Gigoo, Mehak
Gupta Grover and Ramesh Vinayak would engage in literary perspective.
Nupur Sandhu, Mukul
Kumar, Ruby Gupta and Simran Singh would feature on the ‘Passion through the
Ages’ session.
Aabid Surti, another
legendary writer of children literature, would conduct children’s workshop on
second day morning and would also be a part of the session “Keep that
Innocence” along with Katie Bagli and Dr Samir Parikh.
Simran Puri, Amitoj Mann,
Jaspal Singh, Dr Dalvir Singh Pannu, Vivek Atray, Lily Swarn, VK Kapur, Gurdip
Hari, Damayanti Biswas, Kanchana Banerjee, Ankur Bisen and Mihir Dalal are some
of the other celebrated authors who would be interacting with the city’s
discerning audience.
The first day evening
highlight shall be ‘Ghazal Ke Saaz Uthao’ session with masters of poetry like
Gyan Prakash, Mamta Kiran, Rajinder Toki, Nafas, Trilochan, Ajit Langen with
Madhav Kaushik as the moderator.
On this occasion several
authors shall unveil their writings at the book launches on both the days
including that of Lippi Parida, Sanjay and Priya Tandon, Supreet Dhiman, and
Praveen Kaushik.
CLS Chairperson Dr Sumita
Misra says, Literati has been growing in scale and substance every year with
our endeavour to provide literature lovers of the region with the best author
sessions and interactions.
Literati is supported
by the Chandigarh Administration and the Department of Cultural Affairs
Government of Haryana.
Chandigarh Literary Society
(CLS) founded in 2013 had been established in the region to encourage people to
share their stories and publish through workshops, book launches, interactions
with authors, holding writing competitions, besides organizing its mega
literary event, Literati, every year.