Hindi to be promoted in new literature and Arts Festival in Bhopal

In order to promote Hindi literature and other Indian Languages, the Tagore International Centre for Arts and Culture will conduct Vishwa Rang. The Tagore International Literature and Arts Festival will feature close to 500 authors and artists from 30 countries. The arts festival will be conducted from November 7 to 10, 2019 on Bhopal.

Festival Director, Santosh Choubey in a statement said the aim of the arts festival is to promote other Indian languages on an international scale. This is done by providing a platform for discussion, participation, and deliberation of everyone involved in Hindi Sahitya, arts and culture. He also added that the centre for arts and culture has partnered with reputed international and national universities along with organizations that are focused on raising awareness about the literary richness and importance of Indian languages.

The authors participating in the arts festival include Jnanpith and Sahitya Academi awardee Raghuveer Chaudhari, Padma Shri winner Surjit Patar, and Vyas Samman awardees Chitra Mudgal and Vishwanath Tripathi. Others who will be present at the arts festival include renowned actor Ashutosh Rana, poet, and lyricist Irshad Kamil and singer Raghu Dixit.

The arts festival is conducted with an aim to serve as a platform for intellectual discussions and cultural interplay. The arts festival will also feature over 60 sessions on subjects including literature, cinema, journalism, and the environment. The line up for the arts festival will include international mushaira sessions, discourse on Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi along a Dastangoi performance.

The international litterateurs who will be present at the festival include Bangladeshi poet and essayist Mozid Mahmud, South African actress, writer and performance poet Lebogang Mashile, Burmese poet, poetry editor and translator Ko Ko Thett, Filipino poet, essayist and freelance journalist Marra PL Lanot, Sri Lankan Tamil Poet Rudhramoorthy Cheran, Tibetan poet, writer and activist Tenzin Tsundue and Russian poet, essayist and cultural activist and anthropologist Igor Sid.

The arts festival will also have a three day retrospective on Tagore which will focus on his poetry, paintings, stories, and plays. The festival is also supported by different literary and cultural government bodies which include the Department of Culture and Tourism in Bhopal, Sahitya Akademi, Jnanpith, National Book Trust and Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts.

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