1 Samvatsar Lecture 70 Years of Indian IndependenceYuva Sahiti : Literary : The Portrayals New Harvest  Symposium on Media andPresentation Literature of Sahitya Akademi Awards 2017

 Writers' Meet Purvottari Seminar on  Akademi Exhibition Oral & Tribal Literature Indo-Israeli Writers' Meet and Tribal Poets' Meet

     2 Feb 12 2018

 

 Akademi Exhibition  (Showcasing glimpses of Akademi's activities in 2017)

 Monday, 12 February 2018, 10.00 a.m. Rabindra Bhavan Lawns   Inauguration by Chitra Mudgal Eminent Hindi Writer & Scholar

 Book Exhibition: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily at Rabindra Bhavan Lawns 3 Feb 2018 12                       

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

4 Feb 12 2018

Presentation of Sahitya Akademi Awards 2017 Monday, 12 February 2018, 5:30 p.m. Kamani Auditorium, 1, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi 110 001

Invocation Welcome Address : K. Sreenivasarao Followed by Secretary, Sahitya Akademi Kuchipudi Dance Presidential Address : President, Sahitya Akademi by Kuchipudi Bhagavatha Melam Kuchipudi Village Citation and Presentation of Awards at 7.00 p.m. Address by Chief Guest : Kiran Nagarkar Eminent Writer & Scholar Concluding Remarks : Vice-President, Sahitya Akademi

Media Interaction with Awardees 11:30 a.m., Rabindra Bhavan Lawns

5 Feb 2018 12

                         

6 Feb 12 2018

Jayanta Madhab SahityaBora (Assamese) Akademi Award 2017 Winners Afsar Ahmed Rita Boro (Bodo) (Bengali) Shiv Mehta (Dogri) Mamang Dai Rajen Toijamba Urmi Ghanshyam (English) Desai Shrikant Deshmukh (Manipuri) Ramesh Kuntal Megh Bina Hangkhim T.P. Ashoka (Kannada) (Gujarati) Gayatri Saraf (Odia) (Marathi) (Hindi) (Nepali) Autar Krishen Rahbar Nachhattar Gajanan Raghunath Jog Neeraj Daiya (Punjabi) (Rajasthani) (Kashmiri) Udaya Narayana Singh 'Nachiketa' (Maithili) Niranjan Mishra (Sanskrit) K.P. Ramanunni (Konkani) Bhujanga Tudu (Malayalam) Jagdish Lachhani (Santali) (Late) Inqulab (Sindhi) T. Devipriya (Telugu) (Tamil) Mohd. Baig Ehsas

(Urdu)

7 Feb 2018 13

                                     8  Feb 13 2018 Inaugural Session : 10.30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Welcome Address : K. Sreenivasarao Secretary, Sahitya Akademi Seminar on Inaugural Address : Mrinal Miri Oral & Tribal Literature Distinguished Scholar and Keynote Address : T.V. Kattimani Tribal Poets' Meet Vice Chancellor, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University Guest of Honour : Temsula Ao Tuesday, 13 February 2018 Eminent English Writer & Scholar Rabindra Bhavan Lawns Presidential Address : B. B. Kumar Eminent Linguist and Chairman, ICSSR Tea First Session : 12.00 noon - 1.30 p.m. Chair : Desmond Kharmawphlang Papers : D. Kuolie Zothonchhingi Khiangte Om Prakash Bharti Lunch 9 Feb 2018 13

                        

10 Feb 13 2018

Second Session : 2.30 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. Tribal Poets' Meet Seminar on Readings : Arjun Singh Dhurve (Baiga) Rudra Narayan Panigrahi (Halbi) Oral & Tribal Literature Rajkishore Nayak (Bathudi) Kairasing Bandia (Ho) and Kuldeep Singh Bampal (Bhotia) Riquoma Rq. Lalloo (Jayantia) Tribal Poets' Meet Sudarshan Bhumij (Bhumij) On Teran (Karbi) Zohming Thanga (Bongchar) Saroj Kerketta (Kharia) Tuesday, 13 February 2018 Kulin Patel (Dhodia) Minimon Laloo (Khasi) Rabindra Bhavan Lawns Colnat B. Marak (Garo) Rafiq Anjum (Gojri) Roop Singh Khusram (Gondi) Veera Rathod (Gormati)

11 Feb 2018 13

 Writers' Meet  (Award-winning authors share their work and creative experiences)  Tuesday, 13 February 2018, 10.00 a.m.  Rabindra Bhavan Lawns

 Presided by : Vice-President, Sahitya Akademi

 Indo-Israeli Writers' Meet (On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of  establishment of diplomatic relations  between India and Israel)

 2.30 p.m., Akademi Conference Hall

12 Feb 13 2018

 Samvatsar Lecture  "Ascent to Vyaasa Guha”  by S. L. Bhyrappa Eminent Kannada writer & Fellow, Sahitya Akademi  Tuesday, 13 February 2018, 6.00 p.m.  Rabindra Bhavan Lawns 

13 Feb 2018 14

                         

14 Feb 14 2018

Third Session : 10.00 a.m. - 11.45 a.m. Seminar on Chair : Vasant Nirgune Oral & Tribal Literature Papers : Mahendra Kumar Mishra and Ashwini Kumar Pankaj Tribal Poets' Meet Ashutosh Bhardwaj (Contd...) Tea

Wednesday, 14 February 2018 Fourth session: 12:00 noon - 1.30 p.m. Rabindra Bhavan Lawns Chair : Purushottam Bilimale Papers : Nirmal Selvamony S. Naga Malleswar Rao Shyama P. Lunch

15 Feb 2018 14

                           

16 Feb 14 2018

Fifth Session : 2.30 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. Tribal Poets' Meet Seminar on Readings : M. P. Rekha (Kodava) Ashrita Tuti (Mundari) Oral & Tribal Literature Bikas Ray Debbarma (Kokborok) Jamuna Bini Tadar (Nyishi) and Mahabir Oraon (Kurux) N Vumsuan (Paite) Deenabandhu Kanhar (Kui) Charu Mohan Rabha (Rabha) Tribal Poets' Meet Konchok Rigzen (Ladakhi) Rajesh Rathava (Rathavi) (Contd...) Kachyo Lepcha (Lepcha) Aasim Sardar Tadavi (Tadavi) Kalachand Mahali (Mahali) Satyajit Toto (Toto) Wednesday, 14 February 2018 Th. Thumbu Maram (Maram) Rabindra Bhavan Lawns Dipok Kumar Doley (Missing) Puni Losii (Mao)

17 Feb 2018 14                                                      

18 Feb 14 2018

Inaugural Session : 11.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon Second Session : 2.30 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. Welcome Address : K. Sreenivasarao Chair : Ram Bahadur Rai Secretary, Sahitya Akademi Speakers : Nidheesh Tyagi Inaugural Address : A. Surya Prakash Rahul Srivastava Chairman, Prasar Bharati Mukesh Bhardwaj Presidential Address : President Amarnath Amar Suman Chattopadhyay Symposium on Sahitya Akademi Shashi Prabha First Session : 12.00 noon - 1.30 p.m. Media and Literature Tea Chair : Sachchidanand Joshi Speakers : Sudhish Pachauri Third Session : 4.15 p.m. - 5.45 p.m. Wednesday, 14 February 2018 Rahul Dev Chair : Baldev Bhai Sharma Rabindra Bhavan Lawns Rajeev Ranjan Nag Speakers : Shahid Latif Pratap Somvanshi Nistula Hebbar K. Shrinivas Dev Prakash R. V. Rama Rao Ravindra Tripathi Lunch Anant Vijay Balendu Sharma Dadhich

19 Feb 2018 14

 

  

         

  

20 Feb 14 2018

10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Afsar Ahmed (Award Winner in Bengali) with Sandeep Chatterjee 11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Mamang Dai (Award Winner in English) with Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee Face to Face 12:00 noon – 12:45 p.m. Ramesh Kuntal Megh (Award Winner in Hindi) with Prayag Shukla Eminent Scholars in Lunch Conversation with 2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Sahitya Akademi K. P. Ramanunni (Award Winner in Malayalam) with A. J. Thomas Award Winners 2017 3:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, 14 February 2018 Rabindra Bhavan Lawns T. Devipriya (Award Winner in Telugu) with Krishna Rao

Cultural Evening Sangrain & Wa Dance by Sangrain Dance Academy, Tripura 7.00 p.m. at Rabindra Bhavan Lawns

21 Feb 2018 15

                                               

22 Feb 15 2018

Inaugural Session : 11.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. First Session: 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Welcome Address : K. Sreenivasarao Dalit Literature: Regaining Freedom Secretary, Sahitya Akademi Chair : K. Enoch Inaugural Address : Manoj Das Papers : Sharan Kumar Limbale National Seminar on Eminent Odia Writer and Fellow, Sahitya Akademi Sheoraj Singh Bechain 70 Years of Indian Nirmala Putul Presidential Address : President Tea Independence : Sahitya Akademi Literary Portrayals Keynote Address : Harish Trivedi Second Session : 4.00 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. Thursday, 15 February 2018 Eminent Writer & Scholar Consolidating the Freedom : Akademi Auditorium Concluding Remarks : Vice-President Literature as a Tool for National Integration Sahitya Akademi Chair : Raghuveer Chaudhauri Lunch Papers : Rana Nayar Shafey Kidwai Maalan

23 Feb  2018 15                                                      24  First Session: 12.00 noon - 1.30 p.m. Feb Writing: Passion or Profession? 15 2018 Chair : Namita Gokhale Papers : Ratnottama Das Bikram (Assamese) Vitasta Raina (English) Yuva Sahiti : The New Harvest Achyutanand Mishra (Hindi) (Young Writers' Meet) Anushree Rathore (Rajasthani) Vempalli Gangadhar (Telugu) Thursday, 15 February 2018 Lunch Rabindra Bhavan Lawns Second Session: 2.30 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. Inaugural Session : 10.30 a.m. - 11.45 a.m. Story Reading Welcome Address : K. Sreenivasarao Chair : Paramita Satpathy Secretary, Sahitya Akademi Readings : Himalaya Jana (Bengali), Upasana (Hindi) Shridhar Banvasi G.C. (Kannada) Inaugural Address : Indra Nath Choudhuri Sumita Prabhu (Konkani) Eminent Scholar & Critic Debapriya Priyadarshi Chakra (Odia) Poetry Reading : Himalaya Jana (Bengali) Third Session: 4.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. Roshan Bral 'Roshan' (Dogri) Poetry Reading Mihir Chitre (English) Chair : Ashtbhuja Shukla Chandresh Makwana (Gujarati) Readings : Dhiraj Basumatary (Bodo) Prem Shankar Shukla (Hindi) K. Raja Anjana (English) Lone Imtiyaz (Kashmiri) Umesh Paswan (Maithili) D. Anil Kumar (Malayalam) Karna Biraha (Nepali) Ravi Korde (Marathi) Gulab Ladhani (Sindhi) Pali Khadim (Punjabi) Yuvaraj Bhattarai (Sanskrit) Wasif Yaar (Urdu) Birsant Hansdah (Santali) Tea J. Tamil Selvan (Tamil) 25 Feb 2018 15

   Chair : Sheen Kaaf Nizam  Eminent Urdu Poet

   Readings : Alok Shrivastava  Ashok Chakradhar   Buddhinath Mishra   Chandra Bhan Khayal   Kunwar Bechain  Laxmi Shankar Vajpai Kavi Sammelan  Madhu Mohini Upadhyay  Maheswar Tiwari Thursday, 15 February 2018 , 6.00 p.m.  Mansoor Usmani Rabindra Bhavan Lawns  Mumtaz Munnawar  Rajesh Reddy  Wasim Barelvi

26 Feb 16 2018                                                   27 Feb 2018 16

Fourth Session : 11.45 a.m. - 1.30 p.m. National Seminar on War Literature in Indian Languages 70 Years of Indian Independence : Chair : Bhalchandra Nemade Literary Portrayals Papers : Bhupendra Adhikari Jatindra Kumar Nayak (contd...) Rajkumar Friday, 16 February 2018 Lunch Akademi Auditorium Fifth Session : 2.30 p.m. - 3.45 p.m. Third Session : 10.00 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. Emergency and Writing as a Political Tool Chair : H.S. Shivaprakash State in Crisis : India in 1950's and 60's & Literature Papers : Ved Pratap Vaidik Chair : K. Satchidanandan Arun Kamal Papers : Udaya Narayana Singh Alok Mehta Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta Dhananjay Singh Sixth Session : 4.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. Tea The Role of Literature in the Independence Movement Chair : Sudhish Pachauri Papers : Sribhagwan Singh Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay C. Rajendran 28 Feb 16 2018             

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

29 Purvottari Feb 2018 16 (North-Eastern and Northern Writers' Meet) Second Session : 2.30 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. Friday, 16 February 2018 Poetry Reading Rabindra Bhavan Lawns Chair : Leeladhar Jagoori Inaugural session : 10.15 a.m. - 11.45 a.m. Readings : Jyotirekha Hazarika (Assamese) Welcome Address : K. Sreenivasarao Sanjay Chakrabarty (Bengali) Secretary, Sahitya Akademi Rashmi Choudhury (Bodo) Inaugural Address : Sonam Tshering Lepcha Promila Manhas (Dogri) Eminent Lepcha Lyricist and Folk Musician Vijay Wali (Kashmiri) Story Reading N. T. Lepcha (Lepcha) Chair : S. R. Harnot Narayan Ji (Maithili) Readings : Gobind Prasad Sharma (Assamese) Tongbram Amarjit Singh (Manipuri) Tikendra Mall Basumatary (Bodo) Induprava Devi (Nepali) Ningombam Sanatombi Devi (Manipuri) Ravinder (Punjabi) Tea Shankar Singh Rajpurohit (Rajasthani) First Session : 12.00 noon - 1.30 p.m. Ramshankar Awasthi (Sanskrit) Panel Discussion : My Creation, My World Yashoda Murmu (Santali) Moderator : Yeshe Dorje Thongchi Qamar Suroor (Urdu) Discussants : Mangalsing Hajowary (Bodo) Shivmurti (Hindi) Yashodhara Mishra (English) Niranjan Chakma (Chakma) Lunch 30 Feb 16 2018                                             31 Feb 2018 16 Symposium on Translation as Retelling First Session: 11.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m. Friday, 16 February 2018 Chair : Ranjit Saha Rabindra Bhavan Lawns Papers : Alok Gupt Meaning of Translation in Indian Thought Anamika Inaugural Session: 10.00 a.m. – 11.00 a.m. Meaning of Translation in Western Thought Welcome Address : K. Sreenivasarao Tarsem Secretary, Sahitya Akademi Logic of Meaning Inaugural Address : Satyavrat Shastri Lunch Eminent Sanskrit Scholar, Second Session: 2.00 p.m. – 4.00 p.m. and Fellow, Sahitya Akademi Tea Chair : O.L. Nagabhushanav Swamy Papers : Krishna Kumar Goswami Cultural Evening Translator’s Virtues, Task and Expectations

Musical Presentation : Angshuman Kar Translator’s Responsibilities and Challenges Medieval Poetry Vanamala Vishwanatha By Shekhar Sen Concept of Solution 7:00 p.m., Rabindra Bhavan Lawns 32 Feb 17 2018                                       

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Seventh Session: 10.00 a.m. - 11.30 a.m Valedictory Session: 2.30 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. Seven Decades of Freedom: Feminist How Free are Writers Today? Perspectives Chair : S.L. Bhyrappa Chair : Mridula Garg Papers : C. Radhakrishnan DamodarMauzo National Seminar on Papers : Maya Pandit Savita Singh Sukrita Paul Kumar 70 Years of Indian C. Mrunalini Independence : Jaiwanti Dimri Literary Portrayals Tea (contd...) Eighth Session: 11.45 a.m. - 1.30 p.m. Saturday, 17 February 2018 Evolution of Children's Literature through Akademi Auditorium Seven Decades Chair : Swayam Prakash Papers : Deepa Agarwal Dinesh Goswami Era.Natarasan Lunch 34 Feb 17 2018

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Inaugural Session: 11.00 a.m. - 12.00 noon Second Session : 2.30 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. Welcome Address : K. Sreenivasarao Chair : Leeladhar Mandloi Secretary, Sahitya Akademi Papers : Ramesh K. Mittal Inaugural Address : Baldeo Bhai Sharma Ravi D.C. Chairman, National Book Trust Vijay Chief Guest : Kamal Kishore Goyanka Haqqani Al-Qasmi Symposium on Eminent Hindi Writer and Scholar The Role of Publishers Guest of Honour : Dhruba Jyoti Borah in Indian Literature Eminent Assamese Writer and Scholar Presidential Address : Vice-President Saturday, 17 February 2018 Sahitya Akademi Rabindra Bhavan Lawns Tea First Session : 12.00 noon - 1.30 p.m. Chair : Bikas D. Niyogi Papers : Arun Maheshwari Arun Jakhade Vaishali Mathur Lunch 36 Feb 17 2018     Spin-a-tale Programmes for Children l  l  Saturday, 17 February 2018 Rabindra Bhavan Lawns, 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. l   l Poetry Writing Competition l  l Story Writing Competition   l Abid Surti and Rajnikant Shukla  will interact with children

l An Interaction with a brave child: Nazia Khan National Bravery Awardee

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