24-29 February 2020  AKADEMI EXHIBITION  Purvottari  Face to Face All IndiaAll TribalIndia LGBTQ Writers' Poets' Conference Meet  Media Interaction with the Awardees Media and Literature : Information and Sensibility Samvatsar Lecture  Art of Translation: Cultural Responsibility  

SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARDS 2019 Present Scenario of Playwriting  New Harvest Regionality, Environment and LiteraturePresent Scenario of Playwriting  Spin-a-tale : Programme For Children Panel Discussion on  Publishing in India Feb. 24 Monday       

AKADEMI EXHIBITION

(Showcasing glimpses of Akademi's activities in 2019) Monday, 24 February 2020, 10.00 a.m. Rabindra Bhavan Lawns

Inauguration by: Mannu Bhandari Eminent Hindi Writer

 Book Exhibition: 10.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m. daily at Rabindra Bhavan Lawns    

             

                       Feb. 24 All India Tribal Writers' Conference Monday Rabindra Bhavan Lawns

Inaugural Session 2.30 p.m. - 3.30 p.m. Welcome Address : K. Sreenivasarao Secretary, Sahitya Akademi Inaugural Address : Anvita Abbi Distinguished Linguist and Scholor Chandrashekhar Kambar Presidential Address : President, Sahitya Akademi Tea

First Session : 4.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. Chair : Chandrakanta Murasingh Readings : Ch. Sote Aimol (Aimol) : Mukteswar Kemprai (Dimasa) Cultural Programme : Rabindra Bhavan Lawns, 6.00 p.m. Mirthnarch K. Marak (Garo) Shri Krishna Parijat : Hangmiji Hanseh (Karbi) A Traditional Folk Musical Drama : Rup Lall Limboo (Limboo) by Durgavva Mudhol and Fellow Artists : Ngurang Reena (Nyneshi) from Lokapur, Karnatka    

              

       

                          Feb. 25 All India Tribal Writers' Conference (contd...) Tuesday Rabindra Bhavan Lawns

Second Session : 10.00 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. Tribal Languages : Preservation and Revitalization Chair : Addanda C. Cariappa Papers : Chukey Bhutia : Ganga Sahay Meena : Srikrushna G. Kakade : S. Nagamalleswara Rao Tea

Third Session: 12.00 noon - 1.30 p.m. Fourth Session: 2.30 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. Chair : Mangala Garwal (Bhil) Chair : Anuja Mohan Pradhan (Kui) Readings : Anjali Belagal (Hakki Pikki) Readings : Suresh Husenrao Velade (Gond) : Ramgopal Ramlal Bhilavekar (Korku) : Simeon Ronglo (Khoibu) : Dahun-I Mon-I Kharsyntiew (Khasi) : Shefali Debbarma (Kokborak) : Sargim Kawasi (Madia Gond) : Evanisha Pathaw (Jayantia) : Amilata Mili (Mising) : L. Soloman Dangsawa (Maring) Lunch : Shanoi Moses Tarao (Tarao)     

                                                                               Feb. 25 Purvottari Tuesday (North-Eastern and Northern Writers' Meet) Rabindra Bhavan Lawns

Inaugural Session : 10.00 a.m. – 10.30 a.m. Discussants : Nishi Pulugurtha (English) : Welcome Address K. Sreenivasarao Mangat Badal (Rajasthani) : : Secretary, Sahitya Akademi Harihar Hasda (Santali) Lunch Inaugural Address : Arambam Memchoubi Eminent Manipuri Poet Third Session : 2.30 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. Presidential Address : Chandrashekhar Kambar Poetry Reading President, Sahitya Akademi Chair : Karabi Deka Hazarika First Session : 10.30 a.m. – 12.00 noon Readings : Pikumoni Dutta (Assamese) : Chandramani Jha (Maithili) Short story Reading : Rashmi Choudhury (Bodo) Chair : N. Kirankumar : Gopal Krishan Komal (Dogri) Readings : Rumi Laskar Bora (Assamese) : Jaydeep Sarangi (English) : Anita Singh (English) : Mrityunjay Singh (Hindi) : Navneet Mishra (Hindi) : Manshoor Banihali (Kashmiri) : Haobam Satyabati Devi (Manipuri) : Abdul Hamid (Manipuri) Tea : Bhawani Adhikari (Nepali) Second Session : 12.30 p.m. – 1.30 p.m. : Barjinder Chowhan (Punjabi) Panel Discussion : Intertwining of Fact and Fiction : Alok Kumar Mishra (Sanskrit) Moderator : Anamika : Shariq Kaifi (Urdu) Discussants : Kamal Chakraborty (Bengali) : Garima Srivastav (Hindi)  

  

Media Interaction with the Awardees 11.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. Rabindra Bhavan Lawns   

 

        



        Feb.25 Tuesday Presentation of SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARDS 2019

5.30 p.m., Kamani Auditorium, 1 Copernicus Marg New Delhi 110 001

Invocation Welcome Address : K. Sreenivasarao Secretary, Sahitya Akademi Presidential Address : Chandrashekhar Kambar President, Sahitya Akademi

Citation and Presentation of Awards

Address by Chief Guest : Gulzar Distinguished Poet, Fiction writer and Director Concluding Remarks : Madhav Kaushik Vice–President, Sahitya Akademi   

      ‘’                     Feb.25 Tuesday Sahitya Akademi Award 2019 Winners

Joyasree Goswami Mahanta (Assamese) Beryl Thanga (Manipuri)

Chinmoy Guha (Bengali) Anuradha Patil (Marathi)

Phukan Ch. Basumatary (Bodo) Solon Karthak (Nepali)

(Late) Om Sharma ‘Jandriari’ (Dogri) Tarun Kanti Mishra (Odia)

Shashi Tharoor (English) Kirpal Kazak (Punjabi)

Ratilal Borisagar (Gujarati) Ramswroop Kisan (Rajasthani)

Nand Kishore Acharya (Hindi) Penna Madhusudan (Sanskrit)

Vijaya (Kannada) Kali Charan Hembram (Santali)

Abdul Ahad Hajini (Kashmiri) Ishwar Moorjani (Sindhi)

Neelba A. Khandekar (Konkani) Cho. Dharman (Tamil)

Kumar Manish Arvind (Maithili) Bandi Narayana Swamy (Telugu)

V. Madhusoodanan Nair (Malayalam) Shafey Kidwai (Urdu)  

    

Writers' Meet (Award-winning writers will share their creative experiences) 10.00 a.m., Rabindra Bhavan Lawns Presided over by : Madhav Kaushik Vice–President, Sahitya Akademi    

            

                                 Feb.26 Wednesday All India Tribal Writers' Conference (contd...) Rabindra Bhavan Lawns

Fifth Session : 10.00 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. Tribal Sensibilities and Mythology

Chair : Molly Kaushal Papers : G. Krishna : V. R. Ralte : Vidya kamat Tea

Sixth Session: 12.00 noon - 1.30 p.m. Seventh Session: 2.30 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. Chair : Janesh Ayan Chakma (Chakma) Chair : Sampat Devji Thankar (Warli) Readings : Chaitram Nag (Durua) Readings : Bijay Ketan Pingua (Ho) : S. Lhingneithiem Haokip (Kuki) : Sita Kumari Kerketta (Kurukh) : Savitri Pando (Pando) : Gouriprava Singh (Mundari) : Srinibas Gomanga (Saora) : Kumuda B. (Pardivagri) : Satyajit Toto (Toto) : Prawesh Tamang (Tamang) Lunch : M. Paominlal Haokip (Thadou-Kuki)     



                              Panel Discussion on Feb.26 Wednesday Present Scenario of Playwriting Rabindra Bhavan Lawns

Panel Discussion: 3.30 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. Moderator : H.S. Shivaprakash Inaugural Session: 2.30 p.m. - 3.30 p.m. Discussants : Asghar Wajahat : Athokpam Kholchandra Singh Welcome Address : K. Sreenivasarao : Secretary, Sahitya Akademi Krishna Manvalli : Saponjyoti Thakur Inaugural Address : Arjundev Charan Distinguished Rajasthani Writer : Shafaat Khan : Swarajbir Presidential Address : Chandrashekhar Kambar President, Sahitya Akademi : Suman Kumar  



 

 Samvatsar Lecture

by Sri Pranab Mukherjee Eminent Thinker and Former President of India

6.00 p.m., Rabindra Bhavan Lawns Feb.27 Thursday Face To Face Sahitya Akademi Award 2019 Winners in conversation with eminent writers/scholars  Rabindra Bhavan Lawns    10.00 a.m. ― 10.30 a.m. Chinmoy Guha (Award Winner in Bengali) with Subodh Sarkar  10.30 a.m. ― 11.00 a.m.  Ratilal Borisagar (Award Winner in Gujarati) with Harshad Trivedi  11.00 a.m. ― 11.30 a.m.  Nand Kishore Acharya (Award Winner in Hindi) with Bhanu Bharati  11.30 a.m. ― 12.00 noon  V. Madhusoodanan Nair (Award Winner in Malayalam) with  R. Nandkumar 12.00 noon ― 12.30 p.m.  Shafey Kidwai (Award Winner in Urdu) with Sarwar-ul-Hoda         

                                                            

   Feb.27 National Seminar on Thursday Regionality, Environment and Literature Sahitya Akademi Auditorium

First Session : 12.00 noon - 1.30 p.m. Nature in Epics, Legends and Myths Chair : Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari Papers : Raghul V. Rajan Inaugural Session : 10.30 a.m. - 12.00 noon : Abhai Maurya Welcome Address : K. Sreenivasarao : Vishwanath Shinde Secretary, Sahitya Akademi : M.A. Alwar Inaugural Address : S.L. Bhyrappa Lunch Eminent Kannada writer and Fellow, Second Session : 2.30 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. Sahitya Akademi The Discourse of Nature in the Literature Keynote Address : Amit Chaudhuri of the North-East : Past and Present Eminent English Writer Chair : Damodar Mauzo Presidential Address : Chandrashekhar Kambar Papers : Mamang Dai : Desmond Kharmawphlang President, Sahitya Akademi : Preeti Rekha Dutta Concluding Remarks : Madhav Kaushik Tea Vice-President, Sahitya Akademi Third Session : 4.30 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. Nature in Indian Folkore Chair : Gopi Chand Narang Papers : Mahendra Kumar Mishra : Mahesh Sharma : Balvant Jani    

                     

    

      

           

               

    

    

                         

                           Feb.28 Regionality, Environment and Literature Friday National Seminar (contd...) Sahitya Akademi Auditorium

Fourth Session : 10.00 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. Sixth Session : 2.30 p.m.- 4.00 p.m. Nature and Region in Modern Indian Fiction-I Environment, Feminism and Dalit Imagination Chair : Harish Trivedi Chair : Malashri Lal Papers : Seema Sharma Papers : Mini Prasad : Chandrakant Topiwala : Manju Sarkar : Sachin Ketkar : Sharankumar Limbale Tea Tea

Fifth Session : 12.00 noon - 1.30 p.m. Seventh Session : 4.30 p.m.- 6.00 p.m. Nature in Poets' Imagination-I Nature and Region in Modern Indian Fiction-II Chair : Indra Nath Choudhuri Chair : Udaya Narayana Singh Papers : P. Manikyamba ‘Mani’ Papers : P.P. Raveendran : Sa. Kandasamy : Bodhisattva : Rana Nayar : Rakhshanda Jalil : Yashodhara Mishra Lunch     

                

            Feb.28 Panel Discussion on Friday Art of Translation : Cultural Responsibility Rabindra Bhavan Lawns

Panel Discussion: 11.30 a.m. - 1.30 p.m. Inaugural Session: 10.30 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. Moderator : Sukrita Paul Kumar Discussants : Alok Gupta Welcome Address : K. Sreenivasarao Secretary, Sahitya Akademi : Janaki Prasad Sharma Inaugural Address : Chandrakant Patil : Pravasini Mahakud Eminent Marathi Poet and Translator : Rekha Sethi Presidential Address : Chandrashekhar Kambar : V. Chinna Veerbhadrudu President, Sahitya Akademi  

 Panel Discussion on  Media and Literature : Information and Sensibility  Rabindra Bhavan Lawns

 Inaugural Session : 2.30 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.

    Welcome Address : K. Sreenivasarao  Secretary, Sahitya Akademi    Inaugural Address : Baldeo Bhai Sharma  Eminent Hindi writer & Journalist    Presidential Address : Chandrashekhar Kambar  President, Sahitya Akademi  Panel Discussion 3.30 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. Moderator : Sanjukta Dasgupta    :    Discussants Aaku Srivastava :   Abhay Kumar Dube   Dastangoi : Ankur Deka   by  : Baldevraj Gupta   Mahmood Farooqui  : D. Umapathy    6.00 p.m. : Madhu Acharya    Rabindra Bhavan Lawns

   

          Feb.29 Spin-a-tale : Programme For Children Saturday Rabindra Bhavan Lawns

10.00 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. : Story/Poetry Writing and Painting Competition

11.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. : Story telling by eminent fiction writers for children Madhu Pant (Hindi) and Deepa Agarwal (English)

12.30 p.m. – 1.00 p.m. : Prize distribution to the winners of competitions     

                                      Feb.29 Panel Discussion on Saturday Publishing in India Rabindra Bhavan Lawns

First Session : 10.30 a.m. - 12.00 noon Publishing Fiction

Moderator : Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee Inaugural Session : 10.00 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Discussants : Karthika V.K. : Namita Gokhale Welcome Address : K. Sreenivasarao : Secretary, Sahitya Akademi Aditi Maheshwari : Preeti Shenoy Inaugural Address : Gobind Prasad Sharma : Paramita Satpathy Chairman, National Book Trust, India Second Session : 12.00 noon – 1.30 p.m. Publishing Poetry Moderator : Arun Kamal Discussants : Hemant Divate : Arundhathi Subramaniam : Alok Shrivastav

Lunch    ¼vf[ky Hkkjrh; ;qok ys[kd lfEeyu½                                                                                                          New Harvest Feb.29 Saturday (All India Young Writers' Meet) Rabindra Bhavan Lawns

Inaugural Session: 10.30 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. Third Session: 2.30 p.m. – 3.30 p.m. Me and Literature of My Generation Welcome Address : K. Sreenivasarao Secretary, Sahitya Akademi Chair : Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay Inaugural Address : Siddhalingaiah Papers : Yashaswini Pandey (Hindi) Eminent Kannada Writer : Nagaraj Hetturu (Kannada) : Tongbram Amarjit Singh (Manipuri) Guest of Honour : Dhruba Jyoti Bora : Ambesh Talwadkar (Konkani) Eminent Assamese Writer Presidential Address : Chandrashekhar Kambar Fourth Session: 3.30 p.m. – 4.30 p.m. President, Sahitya Akademi Short Story Reading Chair : Prakash Bhatambrekar First Session: 11.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. Readings : Khiroda Bihari Biswal (Odia) Why Do I Write? : Saroj Bala (Dogri) Chair : K. P. Ramanunni : Manushi (Tamil) Papers : Lakshyajit Bora (Assamese) : Roshni Rohera (Sindhi) : Kinjal Joshi (Gujarati) : Priyanka Mishra (Maithili) : Mandakini Bhattacharya (English) : Sreejith Perumthachan (Malayalam) Fifth Session: 4.30 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. Second Session: 12.30 p.m. – 1.30 p.m. Poetry Reading Writing: Passion or Profession? Chair : Sheen Kaaf Nizam Chair : Gourahari Das Readings : Mihir Chitre (English) Reena Menariya (Rajasthani) Papers : Moonisa Aslam Dervash (Kashmiri) Raj Kumar Mishra (Sanskrit) Roshan Rai (Nepali) : Rimi Mutsuddi (Bengali) Indla Chandra Sekhar (Telugu) Mahender Kumar (Urdu) : Deepak Kumar (Punjabi) Rujab Muchahary (Bodo) Chandra Mohan Kisku (Santali) : G. Akhila (English) Madhu Raghavendra (English) Swapnil Shelke (Marathi) Lunch Our Media Partners

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