Bhopal

Eye on expansion of ‘Vishwarang', international committee constituted

Staff Reporter

After the successful organisation of Tagore International Literature and Art Festival 'Vishwarang' organised by Rabindranath Tagore University for its expansion and connection between various programmes in the country and abroad, an international committee headed by Chancellor of Rabindranath Tagore University, Santosh Chaube has been formed.

It will include representatives from about 20 countries that represent all continents.

In this, Indira Gajeeva from Moscow (Russia) and Prof. Lyudmila Kakhlova, Germany, Tatyana Oranskaya, (Hamburg), Uzbekistan, Siraj-ud-din Nurmatov (Tashkent), Kazakhstan Daryga Kokoeva (Almaty), Yuri Botvinkin (Kiev) from Ukraine, Ripsime Nersysyan (Yerevan) from Armenia. Gennadi Shlomper (Tel Abib), from Sri Lanka, Upul Ranjit (Kalviya), from Fiji, Subramani (Suba), England to Tejendra Sharma (London), Divya Mathur (London), Usha Raje Saxena (London), Lalit Mohan Joshi (London), Vandana Mukesh (Nottingham), Jai Verma (Birmingham), from America. Susham Bedi (New York), Kavita Vachknavi (Dallas), Rekha Maitra (California), Umesh Tambi (Philadelphia), Ashok Singh (New York), Anoop Bhargava (New Jersey), Manish Gupta (Seattle), Mahendra Dharmapal (Toronto), from Canada Bhavna Kunwar (Sydney), Rekha Rajvanshi (Sydney), Sanjay Agnihotri (Sydney) from Australia, Sandhya Singh (Singapore) from Singapore. Archana Panuli (Copenhagen), from Netherlands Pushpita Awasthi (Amsterdam), Jitendra Chaudhary (Kuwait City) from Rama Takshaka, (Amsterdam) will be there.

A 27-member group from India has also been formed for cooperation with the above international committee, which represents various fields of literature, culture, education and administration. In this group, Santosh Choubey (Bhopal), Mukesh Verma (Bhopal), Balram Gumasta (Bhopal), Mahendra Gagan (Bhopal), Anurag Seetha (Bhopal), Atmaram Sharma (Bhopal) Liladhar Mandloi (New Delhi),  Kamal Kishore Goenka (New Delhi), Vinay Upadhyay (Bhopal), Sachchidanand Joshi (New Delhi), Usha Ganguly (Kolkata), Devendraraj Ankur (New Delhi), Ashok Bhowmik (New Delhi), Ramesh Chandra Shah (Bhopal), Prabhu Joshi (Indore), Siddharth Chaturvedi, Aditi Chaturvedi, Pallavi Rao Chaturvedi, Nitin Vats, Vijay Singh, Nusrat Manhedi (all Bhopal), Arvind Chaturvedi, Abhishek Pandit (New Delhi), Vinita Chabe, Pushpa Asiwal, Shashank and Major General (Reta.) Shyam Srivastava (Bhopal) have been included.

The aforesaid committee was formed in the meeting of the organising committee held exactly one month after the end of the world colour. The committee has also set some tasks for itself such as working for the promotion of Hindi and Indian languages in this country.

Some concrete programmes have also been set up to give a coordinated pace to the activities of the world.