Chief Minister Raman Singh will inaugurate the three-day Raipur literary Festival in a simple ceremony at 10.30 am at Purkhauti Muktangan, Naya Raipur on December 12.
Culture and Tourism Minister Ajay Chandrakar will preside over the inaugural ceremony which will be attended by Member of Parliament Ramesh Bais and MlA Dhanendra Sahu as special guests.
The officials said that preparations are in the final stages for the literary festival in which more than 200 litterateurs from Chhattisgarh and different States will take part. Free entry passes are being distributed to people at eight spots in the city.
Free bus service will also be provided to the people from major locations of the city to the venue. The details are available on the website raipursahityamahotsava.org, the officials said. They said that for the first time a national level literary event based on Chhattisgarhi, Hindi, Sanskrit and regional languages is being organised in the State ever since its formation. Scholars and renowned writers would hold deliberations on various issues related to literature, art and culture. A national level book fare will also be organised on the occasion.
An exhibition on life and literature of Munshi Premchand will also be organized during the festival. They said that the four ‘mandaps’ (temporary structures) being erected for the event have been named after great literary-cultural personalities of Chhattisgarh including Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh, Mukutdhar Pandey, Padumlal Punnalal Bakshi and Habeeb Tanveer.
As many as 53 sessions will be held in these mandaps in three days with a number of sessions based on artistic culture and literary environment of Chhattisgarh.These sessions will include subjects like ‘Folk literature of Chhattisgarh’, Chhattisgarhi Cinema and lokrang’, History, archaeology and Culture of Chhattisgarh’, ‘New Sensibility in Modern literature of Chhattisgarh’, ‘Folk literature of Surguja’, ‘Gurtur Chhattisgarhi’, etc.
The litterateurs will hold discussions on ‘Andhere Mein’, the famous poem by Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh. lectures wil be delivered by scholars on subjects like ‘pratirodh ka sahitya’, ‘asahmatiyo ke beech sahitya’, ‘kavita ki nai juban’, ‘rachnakar aur unke rachnatmak anubhav’, ‘sahitya mein lokrpiyata ki khoj’, ‘loktantra aur sahitya’, ‘rangmanch chunautiya’, etc.
Workshops on creative writing, cartoon and photography will also be conducted during the programme.