Auroville Literature Competition to kick-start with a various line-up of Indian and worldwide authors

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Namita Gokhale 
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The written phrase has all the time had an affect on Auroville. Named after thinker Sri Aurobindo who was additionally a poet, playwright, and journalist, it’s only pure that the experimental township in Puducherry now hosts its personal literature pageant. Auroville Literature Competition, in accordance with Anu Majumdar, one among its coordinators, has been conceived to perform on the strains of different fashionable literature festivals throughout India. “However it is going to even have one thing particular,” she explains, including: “We hope that it’ll develop to be a yearly affair.”

Jennifer Down

Jennifer Down
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Set to happen on the Worldwide Zone of Auroville this month, the pageant coincides with the 150th yr of Sri Aurobindo’s beginning, and can characteristic discussions on his works, together with a launch of a ebook that he revised, with a preface by Rabindranath Tagore, and a screening of an animated movie on him.

Peggy Mohan

Peggy Mohan
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“We’ve got 17 Indian and 7 worldwide authors on board,” says Anu, including that there are classes on works in translation from Tamil and Malayalam. “On the inauguration, author Namita Gokhale will speak about writing and literary festivals basically,” says Anu. The writer will probably be in dialog with Sanjeev Chopra, who’s the pageant director of Valley of Phrases Worldwide Literature and Artwork Competition, Dehradun.

Ranjit Hoskote

Ranjit Hoskote
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“Some authors have come ahead to take part on-line; these classes will run alongside the bodily classes,” she factors out. “The pageant is unfold throughout three venues: Bharat Nivas, Savitri Bhavan, and Unity Pavilion.”

A number of the different highlights embrace a dialogue by literary agent Kanishka Gupta on the way to get one’s ebook printed; in Delusion, Magic and Moustache: The Attain of a Story, fashionable Malayalam author S Hareesh will probably be in dialog with Tamil poet R Meenakshi. Audio system embrace Puducherry-based Tamil scholar and musicologist Arimalam Padmanabhan, British poet and translator George Szirtes, Melbourne-based author Jennifer Down, South African writer Karen Jennings, author and journalist Nandini Sengupta, Trinidad-born writer and linguist Peggy Mohan, scientist and author Jayanti Ravi, writer Shreya Sen-Handley, and poet and translator Ranjit Hoskote, amongst others.

Shreya Sen-Handley

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“There will probably be cultural performances within the evenings on all days of the pageant, which features a dance theatre efficiency by Surya Efficiency Lab,” says Anu, “We may also have meals stalls serving specialties from the bakeries and eating places Auroville is understood for, other than craft shops that includes works by artisans from the area.”

Auroville Literature Competition is supported by the Auroville Basis and the Ministry of Tradition, Authorities of India. It’s on from August 25 to 27 on the Worldwide Zone of Auroville. Entry is free, however prior registration is required. For particulars, name 8861186277 or write to [email protected].

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