Koraput (Odisha): The two day Koraput Literary Festival (KLF), organised by leading media and publishing house Odia Media Private Limited, is commencing, here from Sunday.
The event will be inaugurated by celebrated Dogri author from Jammu & Kashmir, Lalit Mangotra at the lush green scenic ambiance of Brown Valley Coffee Estate, some 22 KM away from here. Odisha governor Ganeshi Lal and culture minister Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi will grace the valedictory session and confer Koraput Literary Award 2019 on Monday at Tribal Museum, Koraput. The opening ceremony will also be graced by bureaucrat- poet Pradeep Biswal and Koraput collector Madhusudan Mishra. Festival director Subhransu Panda will preside over both the inaugural and the valedictory sessions.
This two-day national literary extravagance will accommodate more than 60 speakers in 15 sessions. Apart from this more than 40 poets will participate in multilingual poetry recitation session. Also there will be a film screening session at the premises of COATS in Koraput. Award winning documentary “Kotpad Weaving” will be screened in the presence of noted weaver Padma Sri Gobardhan Panika.
Eminent short story writer Gourahari Das and noted poet Bipin Nayak will be conferred with the Koraput Literary Award 2019. Besides, 10 eminent personalities from the undivided Koraput district will be felicitated for their achievements and contributions to the society. Agriculture entrepreneur Sujoy Pradhan, Jeypoer’s wild-animal crusaders “War Team”, administator Alok kumar Anugulia, author Satyanarayan Gantayata, literary activist Chandrakanta Biswal, playwright Ashok Kar, social activist Sanjit Patnayak, entrepreneur Akshaya Kumar Patra, poet Jaladhar Swain, journalist Santakar Chelapila will be felicitated on this occasion.
In the 2nd Edition of KLF, out of 15 sessions, 3 sessions will be held on the first day and the rest will be held on the second day of the festival. On the second day the initial session will be on ‘ Koraput and Development’ where BJD leader Rabi Narayan Nanda, Congress leader Pradeep Majhi, BJP leader Bhrugu Baxipatra, former administrator Gadadhar Parida , policymaker Charudutta Panigrahi and social activist Umi Daniel will take part. Senior journalist Sandeep Sahu will be the moderator of the discussion.
“Nature and creativity” will be another subject on day-2. In this session Prof. Bikram Kumar Das, Dash Benhur, Narayan Panda, Sunita Satpathy and well-known Malayalam author V.Muzafer Ahamed will join. Netajee Abhiandan will be the moderator for this discussion.
Among others Raghuram Padal, Gourahari Das, Bipin Nayak, Ajay Swain, Saqti Mohanty, Pritidhara Samal, Aditeswar Mishra, Amaresh Biswal, Amiya Ranjan Mohapatra, Hadibandhu Mahakhuda, Biraja Bal, Sanjukta Mohapatra, Kanak Manjari Sahoo, Dipak Samantrai, Krushna Singh, Saktiprabha Mishra, Gayatri Mavuru, Gyana Hota, Ramakanta Mishra, Rakshak Nayak, Sarat Chandra Acharya, Kamala Pujari, Sumani Jhodia, Debadatta Pati, Girish Ranjan Sahoo, Kulangar Byangakabi,Natendra Kumar Bhoi, Pradeep Kumar Mishra, Madhuri Panda, Rabi Satapathy, Meena Swain, Jhansi Singh, Padmasri Gobardhan Panika, Jema Panika, will join in different sessions.
