PEOPLE LITERARY FESTIVAL
When the nation is undergoing a paranoia of revenge and war, it gives me some sanity listening to the culture warriors respectively from Kashmir, Nagaland and Tribal Orissa speaking on WRITING AZADI.
Anjum Zamarud Habib – Writer of books on forgotten prisoners and victims of occupation in Kashmir, Monalisa – Poet, Sole editor and publisher of English daily ‘Nagaland Page’ and Hemant Dalapat who wrote “Writing your name on our arrow” speak on their struggles of self determination in today’s India.
The session is aptly titled as “Till the Soldiers return their keys and disappear” – lines of Kashmir Poet Agha Shahid Ali.
Let us keep reminding ourselves on safety of ordinary lives caught between mlitants and state.
Songs of Labour – Our own Writer Bama speaks on how she started to write not able to suffer the life itself and how letters had the power to heal her off all the traumas. She is in great company with Anuradha from Telungana, author of “Prison Notes from a Naxalite” and the revolutionary Bengali Poet Mahadeb Naskar who writes “Fear is not a crown that I can wear or take off whenever I want”. A february morning warm clothed in poetry
I love the fact that I am not slotted after a commercial break
Photo Courtesy Debarati Gupta
