World Integrity Center India Dehradun and The World Integrity Foundation together with Madhuban Group and the Harvard Club of India will be hosting the second edition of Dehradun Community literature Festival 2017. The curtain raiser of DClF 2017 will be held on 25 March 2017 at WIC India, Dehradun. Music maestro Ustad Amzad Ali Khan will be in discussion with director of Dehradun Community literature Festival Rishi Suri, on the Ustad's book 'Master on Masters' to be followed by book launch and signing.
Dehradun Community literature Festival 2017 is a four-day literature festival slated to be held on April 19, 20, 21 and 22. The second edition of DClF will feature a host of distinguished speakers, authors and artistes.
Writers and speakers who will speak at the second edition of DClF include Jatin Das, Gurcharan Das, Nandita Haskar, NayantaraSahgal, Kiran Nagarkar, Kiran Manral, Omkar Goswami, Ira Mukhoty, Nitin Sathe, Arundhati Subramaniam, lavanya Shanbhouge, RakshandhaJalil, Dr. SaifMehmood, RoshenDalal, Kavita Kane, Naina lal Kidwai, RohintonDaruwala, SanilSacchar, Jaithirth Rao, Hindol Sengupta, AND Haskar, Sudha Menon, Meghna Pant, Rana Ayyub, MalvikaRajkotia, Harsh Mander, DevduttPatnaik,SanthiniGovindan, Ranjit lal, MileeAshwarya, Ravi Singh, Karan Johar, JP Narayan, BarkhaDutt, Eldad Beck, R Jagnathan, SonaliBendre, Rishi Suri, Harsh Dobhal, Nishtha Satyam, Jujhar Singh, Durjoy Dutta, SumritShahi, Priyanka Bhattacharya and Shutapa Paul.
Founder and Chairperson of the Dehradun Community literature Festival, Nazia Yusuf Izuddin says; "The second edition of The Dehradun Community literature Festival is dedicated to consummating our love for Dehradun and our love for literature. With this edition, the winds, the spring, the trees and the flowers of Dehradun valley will become one with the world of global literature, and we hope that this will establish Dehradun as a leader and key agent of change in leading the modern literary world."
Hemant Kochchar, Director, Madhuban and coorganizer of DClF says, "It is important that our new generation is provided with an environment from which they can understand, imbibe and retain precious virtues of history, art and culture." Talking about the 2nd edition of Dehradun Community literature Festival, Director DClF and Vice President WIC India MuktaKhandelwal says, “DClF has been providing an interesting avenue to avid readers, where they get an opportunity to hear and interact with acclaimed authors and creative personalities from India. The fest has a lot for children too. DClF will host workshops, storytelling sessions, creative games and more for young readers. Several cultural and entertainment programs will also be held during the four-day long lit fest.”
Rishi Suri, Director, Dehradun Community literature Festival, says,"I can think of no better place to organise a literary Festival than Dehradun. This region is full of historic educational institutions, great writers and thinkers. It's been a learning experience and an absolute delight to meet and learn from the amazing residents of Dehradun and around."
The World Integrity Center India Dehradun (WIC India Dehradun) located at Dehradun is the hub of social, intellectual, cultural, entertainment and business activity in Uttarakhand. The Center believes in an integrated approach to community living and upholds and promotes multiculturalism and acceptance of diversity as the foundation of a peaceful society.