Tagore International Literature and Arts Festival Vishwa Rang will be organized in Bhopal from November 7 to 10. Focusing mainly on Hindi and other Indian languages and their cultural importance the event will be organised. It will be held at Minto Hall and Ravindra Bhavan.
Organised by Rabindranath Tagore University in association with Tagore World Arts and Culture Center and Vanmali Srijan Peeth, the Festival will witness participation from more than five hundred delegates from thirty countries of the world, including India.
This Festival will be a unique platform for discussion and deliberation on many subjects including literature, culture, education, cinema, Journalism, environment, covered in around fifty sessions. Preparations are currently underway on a wide scale regarding the smooth implementation of this first and very unique festival of its kind.
This information was given by the Chancellor of Rabindranath Tagore University, well-known literary writer and social entrepreneur Santosh Choubey in a press conference. On this occasion, former director of the Directorate General of All India Radio and poet Liladhar Mandloi, Chairman of Vanamali Srijan Peeth Bhopal, renowned writer Shri MukeshVerma, Shri Siddharth Chaturvedi, Director AISECT and Shri Vinay Upadhyay, Director Tagore Centre of Arts and Culture were also present and they also presented details of 'Vishwarang' activities.
The Festival is also supported by many government and literary and cultural entities in the country and the state, along with other universities and institutions.
Choubey said that in this multifaceted festival, one of the first of its kind session would be the poetry session by third gender poets, as well as World Poetry session. Meet the author, the exhibition of Tagore art works, theatrical musical presentation, book discussions and launch of books will also be a center of attraction.
Leeladhar Mandloi, Chief Advisor of the festival, said that as an important activity of 'Vishwarang', a one day event will be organized on October 11 in New Delhi in association with the Central Sahitya Akademi. He informed that the consent of the writers and researchers of many countries such as China, Japan, America, Canada, Australia, England, Denmark, Netherlands, Russia and Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan have been obtained with well-known scholars of Indian languages active in various streams.
India’s first Index of stories will be published, Writers will be felicitated with Vanmali Katha Samman.