A CELEBRATION OF INDIAN WRITING Nov 2 - 4, 2012 IHC Indian The Amphitheatre Languages' Festival India Habitat Centre Boli Bani Bhasha: Ganv Kasba Shehar www.samanvayindianlanguagesfestival.org Nov 2nd 4:00pm-4:30pm Inauguration Jnanpith Laureate Chandrashekhar Kambar and Ratan Thiyam Session 1 4:45pm-5:45pm Purani Boli Naya Daur: Ratan Thiyam, Gurvinder Singh, Nilesh Mishra, Alok Rai Boli is back! Session 2 6:00pm-7:00pm Had-Anhad Mamang Dai, Arun Kamal, Arjun Deo Charan, Narendra Singh Negi, Sitanshu (Poetry Readings) Yashaschandra, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Uday Narayan Singh Performance 7:15pm-8:15pm Ugana Re Presentation of Maithili poet Vidyapati’s compositions by Kathak Guru Shovana Narayan Nov 3rd Time Language Title Details Speakers Session 3 10:30am-11:30am Manipuri The Idea of a Nation The ways in which Manipuri writing confronts the idea of a Yumlembam Ibomcha, nation(ality) and the question of its ethnic identity, freedom Bijoykumar Tayenjam, and equality Robin Ngangom, Dr.Dhanabir Laishram Session 4 11:45am -12:15pm Sheher dar Sheher: Reading Kashinath Singh, Laxman Mapping Cities Gaikwad, Om Thanvi Session 5 12:30pm - 1:30pm Maithili Love’s Own Language Maithili is a language of love and also of language-activism – a legacy Hetukar Jha, Uday Narayan of its greatest writer Vidyapati. The session explores these two Singh, Gajendra Thakur, aspects of the Vidyapati tradition in contemporary writing Arvind Das Session 6 2:30pm - 3:30pm Kannada Tales of Modernities: Exploring portrayal of small town life and its dynamics in Gopalkrishna Pai, Banu Small Spaces, Big Ideas Kannada Fiction Mushtaq, B.T. Jahnavi, Mamta Sagar Session 7 3:45pm - 4:15pm Ghazal Gaon Reading Munawwar Rana Session 8 4:30pm - 5:30pm English Where Is My Reader? Five best selling writers try to locate their reader against the Palash Krishna Mehrotra, backdrop of changing demographics of the English-language book- S. Hussain Zaidi, Madhuri buyer and reader Banerjee Session 9 5:45pm - 6:30pm Future of Indian Languages Panel Discussion Prem Prakash, Shiva Kumar, Publishing in Digital Era Kinshu Sinha, Rahul Dixit Performance 7:00pm onwards Sish Rangh Kashmiri Sufiana Kalam by Gulzar Ahmad Ganie Nov 4th Session 10 10:00am - 11:00am Oriya Reclaiming Language, How contemporary women writing in Oriya asserts a woman’s claim Pratibha Ray, Paramita Space and Body: Women over the language she has inherited, the geo-cultural space she finds Satpathy, Sarojini Sahoo, Writing in Oriya herself in and her body, the ultimate site of suppression Aparna Mohanty Session 11 11:15am - 12:15pm Pad-Dangal Poetry Performance in Rajasthani Folk Tradition Jagan, Dhavale & Others Intro: Prabhat Session 12 12:30pm - 1:30pm Marathi Mumbai: The City of No Mumbai as portrayed in Marathi Writing Mallika Amarshaikh, Arun Outsiders Sadhu, Hemant Divate, Prakash Bhatambrekar Session 13 2:30pm - 3:30pm Kashmiri My Reality, My In the national mainstream, Kashmiri reality is represented by Nasir Azam, Gulshan Language writing in English/Hindi, mostly journalistic. It's time we heard what Badrani, Elyas Azad, they say about themselves and others in their own language, in Shahnaz Rasheed their own creative writing Session 14 3:45pm - 4:15pm In conversation with Girish Kasaravali Session 15 4:30pm - 5:30pm Hindi Culture and Power: A Tale The journey of Hindi told through its centres of culture and power Ashok Vajpeyi, Kashinath of Seven Cities (Allahabad, Singh,Neelabh Ashk, Arun Benares, Bhopal, Delhi, Kamal, Alka Saraogi Kolkata, Lahore, Patna) Session 16 5:45pm - 6:30pm Mind Your Language Panel Discussion Sneha Khanwalkar, Varun Jaban Sambhal Ke! Grover, Ratan Rajpoot, Vineet Kumar Performance 7:00pm onwards Acoustic solo performance by Rabbi Shergill Partners Supporters DELHI PRESS m a g a z i n e s PRATILIPI BOOKS THE RAZA FOUNDATION Free Entry. Open to all.