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 2018 Feb 12 6 Sahitya Akademi Award 2017 Winners Jayanta Madhab Bora (Assamese) Rajen Toijamba (Manipuri) 2018 Afsar Ahmed (Bengali) Feb Shrikant Deshmukh (Marathi) 12 Rita Boro (Bodo) Bina Hangkhim (Nepali) Shiv Mehta (Dogri) Gayatri Saraf (Odia) Mamang Dai (English) Nachhattar (Punjabi) Urmi Ghanshyam Desai (Gujarati) Neeraj Daiya (Rajasthani) Ramesh Kuntal Megh (Hindi) Niranjan Mishra (Sanskrit) T.P. Ashoka (Kannada) Bhujanga Tudu (Santali) Autar Krishen Rahbar (Kashmiri) Jagdish Lachhani (Sindhi) Gajanan Raghunath Jog (Konkani) (Late) Inqulab (Tamil) Udaya Narayana Singh 'Nachiketa' (Maithili) T. Devipriya (Telugu) 7 K.P. Ramanunni (Malayalam) Mohd. Baig Ehsas (Urdu) 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 Speakers : Shahid Latif Rabindra Bhavan Lawns Rajeev Ranjan Nag Nistula Hebbar Pratap Somvanshi Dev Prakash K. Shrinivas Ravindra Tripathi R. V. Rama Rao Anant Vijay Lunch 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