Kalinga Literary Festival
| Kalinga Literary Festival | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | Literary festival |
| Dates | 10–11-12 June 2017 |
| Location(s) | Mayfair Lagoon, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India |
| Years active | 2013 – present |
| Website | |
| http://Kalingaliteraryfest.com | |
Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF, in Odia କଳିଙ୍ଗ ସାହିତ୍ୟ ମହୋତ୍ସବ) is an annual literary festival held in the Smart and Temple city of Bhubaneswar of Odisha in India. The Festival is normally held in the month of June each year at Mayfair Convention.
The festival has been founded and directed by Rashmi Ranjan Parida,[1] an award winning journalist. The KLF is organised by Odisha Diary Foundation in active collaboration with Odisha Diary news-portal and Odisha Living Legend Initiative. Prachee Naik, Prof Kamala Kanta Dash, Sitansu Mohapatra are co-founders of Kalinga Literary Festival. The logo for the festival was designed by artist and designer Prachee Naik.
History
Kalinga Literary Festival was launched in 2014 to celebrate the Classical Language Status of Odia language.[2]
Renowned names like Sitakant Mahapatra , Ramakanta Rath ,Jayanta Mahapatra, Dinanath Pathy, Subramanian Swamy, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Piyush Mishra, Haraprasad Das, Purushottam Agrawal, Mark Tully, Kedarnath Singh, Bhalchandra Nemade, H.S. Shivprakash, Ravish Kumar, Shazi Zaman, Sagar Sarhadi, Tarun Vijay, Suhasini Haidar, Ashok Chakradhar, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Kancha Ilaiah, Haldhar Nag, Prabhu Chawla, Arif Mohammad Khan, Debi Prasanna Pattanayak, , Pratibha Ray , Sameer (lyricist) , Seema Biswas Paramita Satpathy, Rahul Pandita Ranjana Kumari, Roopa Ganguly , Sudarsan Pattnaik , Sabyasachi Mohapatra , Baishnab Charan Parida , Mrinal Chatterjee, Mridula Garg, Bibhuti Patnaik, Sushma Seth, P. Lalita Kumari (Volga), Gourahari Das, Anu Choudhury , Urmilesh Singh, Mohapatra Nilamani Sahoo , Sharat Katariya, Anna M.M. Vetticad , Aruna Mohanty, Dr. Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee, Professor Sachidananda Mohanty, Shantanu Guha Ray, Asit Mohanty, Sanjay Ahirwal, Dr. Natbar Satapathy, Dr. Manorama Mohapatra, Pranesh Prasad, Dr. Arun Rath, Satya Narayan Sahu, Jatin Nayak, Arun Mishra, Sujit Mahapatra, Pooja Aagrwal, Daitari Panda, Amitabh Behar, Kedar Mishra,Anustup Nayak, Ileana Citaristi, Anil Dey, Santanu Ganguly, Arjun Charan Hembrum, Ashish Gadnayak, Bijaya Nayak, Dr. Aparna Mohanty, Hrushikesh Bhoi, Dr. Fani Mohanty, Monorama Biswal Mohapatra, Prasanna Mohanty, NA Shah Ansari, Prasanta Patnaik, Subhas Chandra Pattnaik, Sankar Parida, Subrat Prusty, and Yash A Patnaik and many other celebrity writers have been panelists at the Kalinga Literary Festival in the last four years.
Central Themes and Topics
First Kalinga Literary Festival 2014:
- Celebrating the Language and Literature
Second Kalinga Literary Festival 2015:[3]
- Literature as Reflection
The key sessions [4] focused on a wide range of topics including Romanticism and contemporary literature, Feminism in contemporary Literature, Parallel Cinema and contemporary Literature, Dalit & Tribal Literature, Media, Medium, Message & Literature, Bhasa Sahitya Vs English Literature and many other inter-related issues.[5]
Third Kalinga Literary Festival 2016:
- Literature and Democracy
The key sessions focused on topics like dialogue, development and democratic spirit in literature, a literary journey of Kalinga, governance in Odia language, youth, women, media, sports, folk and regional literature and the like.[6]
Fourth Kalinga Literary Festival 2017
- The Fourth Kalinga Literary Festival will be in 2017 June 10,11, 12[7]
- Central Theme: Literature for Peace and Harmony [8]
Awardees
Kalinga Literary Award 2014
Kalinga Literary Award 2015
- Banaja Devi
- Durga Prasad Panda
Kalinga Literary Award 2016
- Yashodhara Mishra
- Tapan Mahapatra
- Ramakanta Das
Kalinga Literary Award 2017
Kalinga International Literary Award 2017
Kalinga Karubaki Literary Award 2017
References
- ↑ KLF Founder Rashmi Ranjan Parida announced in media http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/Literature-and-Democracy-focus-at-Kalinga-lit-fest/articleshow/52766581.cms/
- ↑ Odia gets classical language status http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/odia-gets-classical-language-status/article5709028.ece
- ↑ 2nd Kalinga Literary Festival 2015 http://www.odishanewsinsight.com/odisha/odisha-foundation-organizes-kalinga-literary-festival-2015/
- ↑ Great Debates Ensue at 1st Day of Kalinga Literary Festival : Literature has great role in Nation Building, http://news.statetimes.in/3rd-kalinga-literary-festival-begins/
- ↑ Kalinga Literary Festival 2015 announced, 50 Prominent speakers to attend KLF on May 17 at Bhubaneswar, http://www.dnaindia.com/locality/bhubaneswar/2nd-kalinga-literary-festival-be-held-bhubaneswar-may-17-58837
- ↑ Times of India (15 June 2016)'Literature and Democracy' focus at Kalinga lit fest http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/Literature-and-Democracy-focus-at-Kalinga-lit-fest/articleshow/52766581.cms
- ↑ Fourth Edition of KLF, https://www.outlookindia.com/outlooktraveller/destinations/odisha-kalinga-literary-festival/
- ↑ https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170303/jsp/odisha/story_138644.jsp
- ↑ First Kalinga Sahitya Samman Conferred on Dr Debi Prasanna Patnaik, http://odishasuntimes.com/2014/02/25/first-kalinga-sahitya-samman-conferred-dr-debi-prasanna-patnaik/
- ↑ Kalinga Literary Award Conferred on Haraprasad Das , http://www.jagranjosh.com/current-affairs/anand-neelakantan-haraprasad-das-paramita-satpathy-to-be-honoured-with-kalinga-literary-awards-1496745538-1
- ↑ First Kalinga Literary International Award Conferred on Anand Neelakantan, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/features/anand-neelakantan-to-be-awarded-kalinga-international-literary-award/articleshow/59019117.cms/
- ↑ First Kalinga Karubaki Literary Award Conferred on Paramita Satpathy, http://www.thestatesman.com/books-education/authors-neelakantan-satpathy-to-be-honoured-with-kalinga-awards-1496823141.html