The 02nd edition of the
Indian Languages’ Festival – Samanvay 2012 will begin from 02nd Nov
in the heart of Delhi- India Habitat Centre. This three day festival, which
started last year, will revolve around its earthy theme - Gaon – Kasba –
Sheher: Boli-Bani – Bhasha.
Curated by two young literature
enthusiasts Satyanand Nirupam and Giriraj Kirado, this festival is an
initiative of India Habitat Centre in partnership with Delhi Press and
Pratilipi Books.
Like last year, this year too, the
languages’ festival will witness a large
jamghat of khanti Indian literary figures discussing around eight themes
spread across two and a half days and try to present the enriching shades of
different Indian languages. An added attraction will be the book exhibitions
put up by various publishers.
On 2 November, the first day of the
festival, the inauguration will be done by esteemed theatre personality Ratan
Thiyam and Jnanpith awardee Chandrashekar Kambar. The opening session will discuss Purani Boli, Naya Daur: Boli Is Back!,
examining the return of dialects into the ‘mainstream’, while the concluding
session has the intriguing title Zaban Sambhal Ke: Mind Your Language, whose
focus will be on youth and the way they employ language in everyday life. Similarly
the second and the third days will explore other topics inviting rich debates,
like The Idea of a Nation (Manipuri) and
Reclaiming Language, Space and Body: Women
Writing in Oriya (Oriya). The
other session will be The Tale of Modernities: Small Spaces, Big Ideas
(Kannada), The City of No Outsiders
(Marathi), My Reality, My Language (Kashmiri), Love’s Own Language (Maithili), A Tale of
Seven Cities: Changing Power Centres of Hindi [Allahabad, Benares, Bhopal, Delhi,
Kolkata, Lahore, Patna] (Hindi) and Where Is My Reader? (English). Poetry and
book reading sessions have also been planned.
Amongst the cultural performances, the
evening of day one will see Ugana re, a staging of Maithili poet Vidyapati’s
compositions by Kathak Guru Padamshri Shovana Narayan. The next evening, the audience
will be presented with Gulzar Ahmad Ganie’s performance of Kashmiri Sufiana
kalam.
The
event will witness presence of
acclaimed literary figures like-
Ashok Vajpeyi, K. Satchidanandan, Sitanshu Yashaschandra, Arjun Deo Charan,
Arun Kamal, Alok Rai, Gillian Wright among others.
More detail about the event can be
found at http://samanvayindianlanguagesfestival.org and one can get regular
update from http://samanvayindianlanguagesfestival.org
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