PROGRAMME
 
SAARC LITERATURE FESTIVAL
FEBURARY 27, 28, 29, 2016
NEW DELHI
 
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2016
Multipurpose Hall, Kamaladevi Complex,
India International Centre
 
Registration of Delegates: 9.00-10.00
 
INAUGURAL SESSION
10-00-12.30
 
Introduction:
          Prof. Refaqat Ali Khan
          Director SAARC Festival of Literature                              10.00-10.10
Welcome Address:
Ajeet Cour, President FOSWAL                                        10.10-10.25
Keynote Address:
Chief Guest: Prof. Ashis Nandy (India)                            10.25-10.45         
Presidential Address:
                   Prof. Rajmohan Gandhi (India)                                10.45-10.55
Address by Guests of Honour                                                
          H.E. Mr. C. Rajasekhar, Director General, ICCR             10.55-11.05
          H.E. Maj. Gen. V. Namgyel,
                   Ambassador of Bhutan in India                               11.05-11.15
Guests of Honour from each country
address the audience, five minutes each                             11.15-12.05
Mr. Muhammad Mansoor Nassimy (Afghanistan)
Ms. Selina Hossain (Bangladesh)
H.E. Mr. Krishna Prasad Dhakal
          Deputy Ambassador of Nepal in India (Nepal)
Ms. Kunzang Choden (Bhutan)
Dr. Sitakant Mahapatra (India)
Mr. Ibrahim Waheed (Maldives)
Prof. Abhi Subedi (Nepal)
Dr. Shahzad Qaiser (Pakistan)
Mr. Daya Dissanayake (Sri Lanka)
 
Release of Books                                                                       12.05-12.15
 
Vote of Thanks:
                   Prof. Akhtarul Wasey (India)                                    12.15-12.25
 
LUNCH: 12.30-1.30
 
ACADEMIC SESSION I
POETRY: 1.30 to 4.00
Poem/Poems: Not more than 8 Minutes each
 
President: Mr. Jayanta Mahapatra (India)
 

1.  Dr. Rubana Huq (Bangladesh)

2.               Dr. Sitakant Mahapatra (India)

3. Prof. Abhi Subedi (Nepal)
4. Mr. Daya Dissanayake (Sri Lanka)

5.               Dr. Anand Kumar (India)
6.               Prof. A.K. Rashid (Afghanistan)
7.               Mr. Sudeep Sen (India)
8.               Prof. Mohammad Nurul Huda (Bangladesh)
9.               Ms. Arundhathi Subramanium (India)
10.           Mr. Sunil Govinnage (Sri Lanka)
11.           Ms. Farheen Chaudhry (Pakistan)
12.           Mr. Mohammad Reza Mohammadi (Afghanistan)
13.           Dr. Suman Sharma (India)
14.       Mr. Leeladhar Mandloi (India)
15.           Ms. Nahid Kaiser (Bangladesh)
16.           Ms. Tanni Bose (Bhutan)
17.           Mr. Bob D’Costa (India)
18.           Ms. Kamala Wijeratne (Sri Lanka)
19.           Ms. Bushra Farrukh (Pakistan)
20.           Mr. Deo Prakash Choudhary (India)
21.           Mr. Jayanta Mahapatra (India)
 
ACADEMIC SESSION II:
PAPERS:
04.00-06.00 (10 Minutes Each Scholar)
 
President: Dr. Anand Kumar (India)
 
1.           Dr. Chandrasekhar Kambar (India)
2.           Ms. Kamla Bhasin (India)
3.           Dr. Iqbal Mohammad Chawla (Pakistan)
4.           Prof. Mohammad Nurul Huda (Bangladesh)
5.           Dr. Alok Bhalla (India)
6.           Dr. Ahmad Salim (Pakistan)
7.           Ms. Kunzang Choden (Bhutan)
8.           Dr. Anand Kumar (India)
Tea: 06.00 - 06.30
 
CULTURAL EVENING: 6.30 to 8 pm
1.   Saadat Hasan Manto’s One Hour Play
2.   Half Hour Classical Dance by Suhail Bhan
 
 
 

An exhibition of tapestries in silk

By S.G. Vasudev

 

Preview on Friday, 26 February 2016 at 18:30

 

Jagor (120 min; 2009; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Sangram Singh Gaikwad

The story of Manav, the brightest son of the biggest land owner of a village, who takes up farming as a profession while  his siblings flee the village for the bright lights of the city as do most of the villagers 

 

Digant (Boundless)

(110 min; 2012; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Dhyanesh Moghe

About the Gowli community of Goa that challenges the notion of stability and freedom

 

Organised in collaboration with Goenkarancho Ekvot, Delhi
 

Mortoo 

(108 min; 2013; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Jitendra Shikerkar

Recipient of the Award for Best Screenplay, 7th Goa State Film Festival

A black comedy about a villager who comes up with a unique cremation insurance scheme

 

Speaker: Professor Alok Rai is a prominent writer and speaker. He has taught English at IIT Delhi and Delhi University, translated Munshi Premchand, and authored Hindi Nationalism and Orwell and the Politics of Despair

 

Speaker: Professor Alok Rai is a prominent writer and speaker. He has taught English at IIT Delhi and Delhi University, translated Munshi Premchand, and authored Hindi Nationalism and Orwell and the Politics of Despair

 

 

 

Speaker: Professor Alok Rai is a prominent writer and speaker. He has taught English at IIT Delhi and Delhi University, translated Munshi Premchand, and authored Hindi Nationalism and Orwell and the Politics of Despair

 

Dr. Manisha Sethi, Associate Professor, Jamia Millia Islamia; and Prof. Vasudha Dalmia, University of California, Berkeley in conversation with Akshaya Mukul author of Gita Press and The Making of Hindi India (Noida: HarperCollins, 2015)

 

CANCELLED

By Priya Kanungo from Delhi, disciple of Pt. Rajan Misra and Pt. Sajan Mishra