A workshop was held in RIMC for English and Hindi Creative Writing, and Art. It was held in two sessions, in the morning and evening. In the morning, it was for juniors and in the evening it was for the seniors. A total of 202 cadets took part in this workshop which was held for classes 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th.
The workshop was conducted by Manas Ranjan Mahapatra, who has been experience of being a creative writer since the last 39 years. He has been in the field of editing including 11 years in multi-lingual editing.
He has also been heading the National Centre for Children’s literature since the last 12 years. Apart from this, he is a visiting faculty, in the premier institutes of the country like the Banaras Hindu University. He has also had various seminars and workshop in this field at various cities, for the welfare of children, keeping in mind their literary skills.
Apart from authoring eight books, he has received many awards and prizes from various literary institutions like Bal Sahitya Samiksha, Kabita Samman, Utkal Kala Sanskrutika Sansad etc. In his Vote of Thanks, Col HS Bainsla, Commandant, RIMC thanked Mahapatra, for enlightening the cadets on the various forms of contemporary writing and literature.
He was sanguine that the cadets had learnt a lot from such an experience, which would further help them in improving their literary and creative skills. The other dignitaries present were Kavita Bainsla, Ratna, CS Vishwakarma, Vice Principal, DN Thapliyal, SP Bhatia, Rachna Malhotra, Ruchi Datta, Khushi Ram and Sanjay Kumar.