The Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India and Sahitya Akademi is organising UNMESHA, International Literature Festival in Shimla from 16 June 2022 to 18 June 2022. The festival will be organised at Gaiety Heritage Complex; the Town Hall, and The Ridge, Shimla. The Inaugural session will take place in the main auditorium of Gaiety Theatre on 16th June, 2022 from 11.00 A.M. to 12.00 Noon wherein Arjun Ram Meghwal and Meenakshi Lekhi Ministers of State for Culture and Governor of Andhra Pradesh Biswa Bhusan Harichandan will grace the occasion. The event is free for public on all the days and during the festival, there will be a display of about 1000 books related to Indian freedom movement will be on display and the publications of five Indian publishers will be for sale.
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The festival will feature discussions, presentations, poetry and story readings performances etc covering a wide range of topics such as — Tribal Writings; Cinema and Literature; World Classics & Indian Writing; Writings of LGBTQ community of India; Media & Literature; Bhakti Literature; Uniting Cultures through Translation, among many more. The evenings will feature cultural performances-Bharatanatyam by Sonal Mansingh, Tala Vadya Kacheri by P. Jayabhaskar, Nagara by Nathulal Solanki and Dastan-e-Karn, Dastangoi by Mahmood Farooqui.
Distinguished personalities participating in the festival will be Sonal Mansingh, Gulzar, S.L. Bhyrappa, Sudarshan Vashishtha, Pratyoosh Guleri, S.R. Harnot, Hoshang Merchant, Leeladhar Jagoori, Vishwas Patil, Ranjit Hoskote, Geetanjali Shree, Chandrashekhar Kambar, Kiran Bedi, Linda Hess, Daniel Negers, Surjit Patar, Namita Gokhale, Kapil Kapoor, Arif Mohammad Khan, Reghuveer Chaudhari, Sitanshu Yashaschandra, Sai Paranjpye, Deepti Naval, Malashri Lal, Arun Kamal, Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari, Baldeo Bhai Sharma, Satish Alekar and Vishnu Dutt Rakesh.
A spokespersons stated, “Literature of any country represents and reflects culture of that country. Literary Festivals bring out these reflections and representations in all colours and flavours. Further, Literary Festivals bring together great minds of the land and offers once in a life-time opportunity for many young and aspiring writers and literary lovers of the region where the literary festival is held. That is the reason why the Ministry of Culture and Sahitya Akademi are organizing this Festival.”
