Sahitya Akademi’s six-day Sahitya Utsav in New Delhi from March 7
NEW DELHI : Sahitya Akademi’s Sahitya Utsav-2025 will be organized from March 7 to 12 at Ravindra Bhavan on Ferozshah Road here. Union Culture and Tourism Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat will inaugurate it.
Former Chief Justice Justice Deepak Mishra, Bihar Governor Arif Mohammad Khan and Goa Governor PS. Sreedharan Pillai are specially participating in the Sahitya Utsav.
According to Sahitya Akademi Secretary Dr. K. Srinivas Rao that the last Sahitya Utsav-2024 was the largest Sahitya Utsav in the world. This year’s Sahitya Utsav-2025 will be Asia’s largest literary festival. More than 700 famous writers and scholars will participate in this Sahitya Utsav in more than 100 sessions. More than 50 languages of the country will also be represented in it.
The main attraction of the Sahitya Utsav will be the Sahitya Akademi Award 2024 Arpan Ceremony, which will be held on March 8 at 05 pm in Kamani Auditorium. The chief guest of this award-arpan ceremony will be eminent English playwright Mahesh Dattani. The prestigious Samvatsar Lecture will be delivered by eminent English writer Upmanyu Chatterjee on March 9 at 6.30 pm on the Meghdoot Muktakash stage.
The theme of this year’s national seminar in this six-day Sahitya Utsav is – Indian Literary Traditions: Heritage and Development. Apart from this, eminent Malayalam writer Omcheri NN Pillai Birth Centenary Seminar, Mohan Rakesh Birth Centenary Seminar, discussion on the songs of eminent lyricist Gopaldas Neeraj, Kathasandhi with Jitendra Bhatia and meeting with the author will be introduced to Subodh Sarkar. Under the cultural programs, flute playing by Rakesh Chaurasia, Dastan-e-Mahabharata by Fauzia Dastango and Hindustani singing by Nalini Joshi will be presented.
The auditoriums built in the name of Indian rivers, from 10 am to 6 pm, in various programs, apart from multilingual story-reading, North Eastern, North-Eastern Writers Conference, multilingual poetry reading, youth literature and LGBTQ writers conference, discussions will be held on topics like autobiographical literature in India, vanishing rural society in Indian literary works, Indian literature focusing on Partition, depiction of culture in translation, literary works filmed for cinema, universality of literature, Indian literature in global literary scenario, nationalism in post-independence Indian literature, etc.
