Poetry could heal emotional wounds, opined the guests at the 30th edition of Rock Pebbles' National Poetry Festival and Award Ceremony held here recently.
Inaugurating the event, Cuttack district Collector Nirmal Chandra Mishra said the passion for both writing and relishing poetry is innate in a person whose life turns dull and drab without indulging in it.
The Collector released Rock Pebbles, a literary journal of international repute regularly published since its inception thirty years ago. Kamal Prasad Mohapatra, bureaucrat Chhabilendra Roul , Kush Pradhan, Udaya Nath Majhi, Frederick Wright, Ratnakar Rout, Satvir Singh and Basudev Chakraborti also attended the function. The event saw participation of poets from Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal and beyond the country from Bangladesh.
Two compilations of poetry, 'Moon Moments' authored by Saroj Kumar Padhi, a noted poet from Odisha writing in English, and 'Amar Kothao Jawar Nei' by eminent Bangladeshi poet Prof Sayeed Abubaker were released by the guests. Both the poets along with the eminent artist Arun Kumar Maharana were felicitated.