Newdelhi:1/12/23:Union Minister of State for Culture, Arjun Ram Meghwal today inaugurated the Sahitya Akademi Book Fair in New Delhi. Speaking at the occasion, the Minister said that books played an important role in nation-building and the constitution makers were all voracious readers. He added that the decision to put equality before liberty as a fundamental right in the constitution was ...

Baripada:20/11/23:The President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu graced the inaugural session of the 36th Annual Conference and Literary Festival of All India Santali Writers’ Association at Baripada, Odisha today (November 20, 2023). Speaking on the occasion, the President appreciated writers and researchers who are contributing to the Santhali language and literature. She appreciated that All India Santali Writers’ Association has been ...

HIGHLIGHTS Second List of Speakers Announced: Second tranche of 25 speakers announced – The Festival announced its second list of 25 speakers out of over 300 speakers expected to attend the 2024 edition. The second list features Akhil Katyal, Amia Srinivasan, Andrew Quintman, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Bonnie Garmus, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Damon Galgut, Diana Evans, Gulzar Saab, Hernan Diaz, Kai Bird, ...

Bhubaneswar:27/10/23:Eminent fictionist Bhima Prusty received the prestigious ‘Sarala Puraskar’, which is given annually by IMPaCT, the charitable wing of the Indian Metals and Ferro Alloys Ltd. (IMFA). Prusty received the award at the Sarala Puraskar Utsav in Bhubaneswar on Thursday for his novel ‘Jambuloka’.  Prusty’s novel was published by Paschima Publications in 2017. The award carried a plaque, a certificate, ...

Jon Fosse was born 1959 in Haugesund on the Norwegian west coast. His immense œuvre written in Nynorsk and spanning a variety of genres consists of a wealth of plays, novels, poetry collections, essays, children’s books and translations. While he is today one of the most widely performed playwrights in the world, he has also become increasingly recognized for his prose. ...

Stockholm:5/10/23:The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse, “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.” His immense oeuvre written in Norwegian Nynorsk and spanning a variety of genres consists of a wealth of plays, novels, poetry collections, essays, children’s books, and translations. While he is today one of the ...

Newdelhi:2/10/23:The National Education Society for Tribal Students (NESTS), under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, is organizing the 4th National EMRS Cultural, Literary and Kala Utsav – 2023, from 3rd October to 6th October in Dehradun, Uttarakhand. Union Minister for Tribal Affairs, Shri Arjun Munda, Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Shri Pushkar Singh Dhami & Minister of State for Tribal Affairs, Smt. ...

Bhubaneswar: 1/10/23: Odisha Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik has released 21 additional textbooks for primary classes of Saura, Kui, Kuvi, Gondi, and Munda languages. This dictionary will enrich Santali language and will be especially useful for the additional textbook students in primary education. This 3-volume dictionary was compiled by renowned Santali litterateur Srijukta Chaitanya Prasad Majhi and was edited by ...

Bhubaneswar: 24/9/23:Odisha is witnessing a paradigm shift on the foundation of a transformative governance, said Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday in the eleventh Odisha Literary Festival of the New Indian Express. While presenting a thesis with the theme, the ‘Ideas of Identity’ Naveen said, “In this age of binaries, we are expected to be one or the other. But ...

Newdelhi:5/8/23:The President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu inaugurated the uniquec‘Festival of Libraries’ in New Delhi today. This Festival has been organized by the Ministry of Culture with the aim to promote the development and digitization of Libraries and cultivate the culture of reading. Speaking on the occasion, the President said that the development of libraries is correlated to the development ...