LIST OF PROGRAMMES ORGANIZED BY SAHITYA AKADEMI DURING APRIL 1, 2016 TO MARCH 31, 2017 ANNU A L REOP R T 2016-2017 39 ASMITA Noted women writers 16 November 2016, Noted Bengali women writers New Delhi 25 April 2016, Kolkata Noted Odia women writers 25 November 2016, Noted Kashmiri women writers Sambalpur, Odisha 30 April 2016, Sopore, Kashmir Noted Manipuri women writers 28 November 2016, Noted Kashmiri women writers Imphal, Manipur 12 May 2016, Srinagar, Kashmir Noted Assamese women writers 18 December 2016, Noted Rajasthani women writers Duliajan, Assam 13 May 2016, Banswara, Rajasthan Noted Dogri women writers 3 March 2016, Noted Nepali women writers Jammu, J & K 28 May 2016, Kalimpong, West Bengal Noted Maithili women writers 18 March 2016, Noted Hindi women writers Jamshedpur, Jharkhand 30 June 2016, New Delhi AVISHKAR Noted Sanskrit women writers 04 July 2016, Sham Sagar New Delhi 28 March 2017, Jammu Noted Santali women writers Dr Nalini Joshi, Noted Singer 18 July 2016, 10 May, 2016, New Delhi Baripada, Odisha Swapan Gupta, Noted Singer and Tapati Noted Bodo women writers Gupta, Eminent Scholar 26 September 2016, 30 May, 2016, Kolkata Guwahati, Assam (Avishkar programmes organized as Noted Hindi women writers part of events are subsumed under those 26 September 2016, programmes) New Delhi 40 ANNU A L REOP R T 2016-2017 AWARDS Story Writing 12-17 November 2016, Jammu, J&K Translation Prize 4 August 2016, Imphal, Manipur Cultural ExCHANGE PROGRAMMES Bal Sahitya Puraskar 14 November 2016, Ahmedabad, Gujarat Visit of seven-member Nepali writers’ delegation Yuva Puraskar 15-21 July, 2016 2 December 2016, Agartala, Manipur Delhi, Jaipur, and Agra Sahitya Akademi Award Visit of five-member Chinese writers’ 22 February 2017, New Delhi delegation 21-25 August 2016 Bhasha Samman New Delhi and Mumbai 8 February 2017, Pune 21 February 2017, New Delhi Visit of six-member Korean writers’ delegation BAL SAHITI 29 September 2016, New Delhi Panel discussion on “Present Challenges in Children’s Literature” Interaction with Foreign Poets 11 January, 2017, 22 November 2016 New Delhi Mumbai BHASHANTARA Organized Symposium and Literary Meet in ANUBHAV London Book Fair March 14-16, London Arutchelvar Dr. N. Mahalingam Translation Institute, 27 January 2017 Documentary FILMS Pollachi, Tamil Nadu SCREENING CREATIVE WRITING O.N.V. Kurup 4 June 2016, Bengaluru WORKSHOPS Ramakanta Rath Children’s Writing in Telugu 22 June 2016, Bengaluru 3-4 September 2016, Sircilla, Telangana ANNU A L REOP R T 2016-2017 41 Gulzar, Bhalchandra Nemade, Bholabhai Bhasha Samman Patel, Narayan Surve, Damodar Mauzo, 21 February 2017, Rabindra Bhavan Amrita Pritam, Ravindra Kelekar, Sunil Lawns, New Delhi Gangopadhyay and Arun Kolatkar 23-24 July, 2016, Goa Meet the Author with Rupa Bajwa, 22 February 2017, Rabindra Bhavan Mahasweta Devi Lawns, New Delhi 2 August, 2016, New Delhi Presentation of Sahitya Akademi Awards Akhtarul Iman (Urdu) 2016 26 November, 2016, New Delhi. 22 February 2017, Kamani Auditorium, New Delhi Gopi Chand Narang 2 December 2016, Mumbai Yuva Sahiti: The New Harvest 23 February, 2017 Rabindra Bhavan Balamani Amma Lawns, New Delhi 8 March 2017, Bengaluru Writers’ Meet (featuring 2016 Sahitya Akademi Award Winners) Manoj Das 23 February, 2017 Rabindra Bhavan 10 March, 2017, Bengaluru Lawns, New Delhi Documentary on Four Santali Writers Samvatsar Lecture by Ramachandra Guha 30 March 2017, New Delhi 23 February, 2017 Rabindra Bhavan Lawns, New Delhi (Documentary Screening during National Book Week and other programmes are Face-to-Face (Interviews with select 2016 subsumed under those events) Sahitya Akademi Award Winners) 24 February 2017, Meghdoot Auditorium FESTIVAL OF LETTERS III, New Delhi (21-26 February 2017 – New Delhi) National Seminar on “Folklore: Tellings Inauguration of Sahitya Akademi and Retellings” Exhibition 2016 24-26 February 2017, Akademi 21 February 2017, Rabindra Bhavan Auditorium, New Delhi Lawns, New Delhi Purvottari: North-East and Northern National Seminar on “Protecting Mother Writers’ Meet Tongue” 24 February, 2017, Rabindra Bhavan 21-22 February 2017, Rabindra Bhavan Lawns, New Delhi Lawns, New Delhi 42 ANNU A L REOP R T 2016-2017 Tribal Writers’ Meet Vijaya Bhavana 25 February, 2017, Rabindra Bhavan 11 December, 2016, Lawns, New Delhi Jonnavalasa Village, Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh. Spin-a-Tale (Magic Show, Dramatized Story Reading and Story and Poetry Gramvikas Shikshan Sanstha Writing Competition for Children) 11 February 2017, 25 February, 2017, Rabindra Bhavan Jalgaon, Maharashtra. Lawns, New Delhi Pangalathur Village Symposium on “Unwritten Languages of 17 February 2017, India” New Villapuram Dist., Tamil Nadu 26 February 2017, Rabindra Bhavan Lawns, New Delhi A.V.N. Mangainayagar Mandram, 11 March, 2017, National Seminar on “Translation as Piranmalai, Sivagangai Dist., Tamil Nadu Retelling” 26 February 2017, Rabindra Bhavan Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Government Lawns, New Delhi Arts College 15 March, 2017, FOUNDATION DAY Madagadipet Village, Pondicherry Dr Sitakant Mahapatra (Odia writer, KATHASANDHI scholar and Fellow, Sahitya Akademi) 10 March 2017, New Delhi Dr Usha Kiran Khan, Maithili Fiction- Writer Akademi Award Winning Tamil Writers 24 April, 2016, 10 March 2017, Chennai Patna, Bihar Dr. H.S. Raghavendra Rao, (Eminent Dr Phanindra Kumar Debchoudhury, Writer and Translator) Assamese Writer 10 March 2017, Bengaluru 27 May, 2016, Dibrugarh, Assam. Eminent Scholars and Writers 10 March 2017, Kolkata Ms Bani Basu, Bengali Fiction-Writer 31 May, 2016, GRAMALOK Kolkata, West Bengal Gramin Vidya Vikas Vidyalaya Dr Rabi Swain, Odia Fiction-Writer 2 October, 2016, 18 June 2016, Chapalgaon, Dist. Solapur, Maharashtra Bhubaneswar, Odisha ANNU A L REOP R T 2016-2017 43 Sri Aurobindo Uzir, Bodo Writer Sri Edwin J.F. D’Souza, Konkani Fiction 26 July, 2016, Writer Karabi Anglong Dist., Assam 30 October, 2016, Mangalore, Karnataka Sri Swayam Prakash, Hindi Fiction Writer Ms Geetanjali Shree, Hindi Writer 12 August, 2016, New Delhi 22 November, 2016, New Delhi Sri Chintakindi Srinivasa Rao, Telugu Dr Bhaskar Chandanshiv, Marathi Writer Fiction-Writer 21 August, 2016, 27 December, 2016, Kolhapur, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Maharashtra Dr Sukhjit, Punjabi Writer Dr Kamla Goklani, Sindhi Fiction Writer 24 August, 2016, New Delhi 22 January, 2017, Ahmedabad, Gujarat Sri Shridhar Banavasi, Kannada Fiction- Dr Debabrata Das, Assamese Fiction- Writer Writer 26 August, 2016, Bangalore, Karnataka 27 February, 2017, Guwahati, Assam. Sri Gupta Pradhan, Nepali Fiction-Writer Sri Bipin Patel, Renowned Gujarati 10 September, 2016, Darjeeling, West Fiction Writer Bengal 15 February, 2017, Ahmedabad, Gujarat Sri Kaladhar Mutwa, Sindhi Writer Sri Rajeshwar Raju, Dogri Fiction Writer 20 September, 2016, Ajmer, Rajasthan 3 March, 2017, Jammu, J&K Dr L. Pramchand Singh, Manipuri Sri K. P. Ramanunni, Malayalam Writer Fiction-Writer 7 March, 2017, Trivandrum, Kerala 28 September, 2016, Imphal, Tripura Sri George Joseph K., Malayalam Writer Ms Joba Murmu, Santali Writer 7 March, 2017, Trivandrum, Kerala 1 October, 2016, Kolkata, West Bengal KAVI ANUVADAK Ms Namita Gokhale, English Fiction- Writer Dr. Jayant Mahapatra, English Writer and 17 October, 2016, New Delhi Sri Anubhav Tulasi, Assamese Writer and Translator Sri P.K. Parakkadavu, Malayalam Writer 28 August, 2016, Guwahati, Assam 26 October, 2016, Trichur, Kerala 44 ANNU A L REOP R T 2016-2017 KAVISANDHI Ms. Vimmi Sadarangani, Noted Sindhi Poet Sri Satilal Murmu, Noted Santali writer at 20 September, 2016, Ajmer, Rajasthan Dumka 1 April, 2016, Jharkhand, Chhatisgarh Sri Harish Karamchandani, Noted Sindhi Poet Sri Madan Kumar Ojha, Eminent Nepali 23 September, 2016, Adipur, Kutch, Poet Gujarat 8 May, 2016, Kurseong, West Bengal Sri Dharanidhar Wary, Noted Bodo Poet Sri Aditya Mandi, Well-known Santali 21 October, 2016, Guwahati, Assam Poet 5 June, 2016, Ranchi, Jharkhand Dr N. Vidyasagar Singh, Noted Manipuri Poet Sri Mridul Dasgupta, Noted Bengali Poet 25 October, 2016, Imphal, Manipur 13 June, 2016, Kolkata, West Bengal Sri Saratchandra Shenoi, Noted Konkani Dr Dillip Das, Eminent Odia Poet Poet 18 June, 2016, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 30 October, 2016, Mangalore, Karnataka Sri Dnyaneshwar Mulay, Noted Marathi Sri P.P. Ramachandran, Noted Malayalam and Hindi Poet Poet 28 June, 2016, New Delhi 9 November, 2016, Mallapuram Dist., Kerala Dr Sameer Tanti, Noted Assamese Writer 28 June, 2016, Cotton College, Guwahati Dr. Vanita, Eminent Punjabi Poet 16 November, 2016, Chandigarh, Punjab Dr Yashodhara Mishra, Noted Odia Poet 8 July, 2016, New Delhi Dr Dharbasayanam Srinivasacharya, Eminent Telugu Poet, Sri Shrichand Keswani, Eminent Sindhi 18 November, 2016, Hyderabad, Writer Telangana 28 August, 2016, Vadodara, Gujarat Dr. R.A. Padmanabha Rao, Noted Telugu Dr Ammangi Venugopal, Eminent Telugu Poet Poet, 30 August, 2016, Hyderabad 26 November, 2016, Bengaluru, Karnataka Dr R. Vasunandan, Eminent Telugu Poet 4 September, 2016, Sircilla, Telangana Sri Yuddhabir Rana, Noted Nepali Poet 29 December, 2016, Tezpur, Assam ANNU A L REOP R T 2016-2017 45 Dr. B. Hanuma Reddy, Eminent Telugu Noted Hindi Writers and Release of Five Poet Decades 18 April, 2016, New Delhi 3 January, 2017, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh World Book Day: Book Culture and the Dr Devkant Mishra, Eminent Maithili Expectation of Readers Poet 23 April, 2016, New Delhi 5 February, 2017, Madhubani, Bihar. World Book Day Dr Chandrakant Topiwala, Eminent 23 April, 2016, Bengaluru, Karnataka Gujarati Poet 15 February, 2017, Ahmedabad, Gujarat.