Festival of Letters

Panjab University in collaboration with CSA to organize a Festival of Letters 28-30 January, 2011.

The Festival will include a seminar series, details for participation given below.

Abstracts of papers are invited by the 1st of January from early/mid-level academics, college teachers and research scholars on the following themes:
Literature Without borders (in English)
Critical papers on Agyeya, Shamsher and Nagarjuna (in Hindi)
Punjabi Literature at Home and Abroad (in Punjabi)

Send 200-word abstracts with CV to sahitakad2008@gmail.com

Participants can also mail ‘pdf’ files of Hindi and Punjabi abstracts to the above mentioned email id. Participants are requested to attach their complete contact information including email id, postal address and Phone/Mobile numbers

There will be a delegate fee for presentation of selected papers.

Certificates will be given to delegates who attend on all three days of the Festival.

A Tribute to VN Singh

Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi places on record the sense of shock and grief on the untimely and sudden demise of Shri Vidya Nand Singh, Director of the Corbousiere Centre, Chandigarh, and extends heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family.

Shri VN Singh was a dear friend of the CSA and attended many of its literary events. His smiling, cheerful face will be missed by all. RIP!

Writer's Goshti 4th Dec 2010

Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi today organized a Writer's Goshti at the CSA mini-Auditorium in the State Library, Sector 34. Attending the event were more than fifty creative writers of the city, some veterans and a few novices. Fifteen poets read from their works in Hindi and Punjabi. Among the senior writers Shri Balbir Singh Tanha and Vijay Kapoor were greatly appreciated. The enthusiasm of senior citizen, Dr Tejpal Singh Chawla, was contagious and percolated to the audience which received his shayari warmly.

New writers included some young voices who made their debut at the Goshti. Gurpreet Anandi and Geetanjali Bhagat, newcomers in the field, were highly appreciated. The event was skilfully compered by two young Urdu aficionados, Jatinder and Sumeet.

Today's event also saw the book launch of Dr Pankaj Malviya's translation of Anton Chekov's tales into Hindi. Prof Mehndiratta, who presided over the event, graphically described the painstaking effort that went into the translation when Dr Malviya, over the last seven years, would discuss his work at every stage with the senior writer-critic.

In an effort to give a platform to more and more aspiring writers of the city, the Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi proposes to make Poetry sessions a regular feature. The next such session will be held on 8th January, at 4 pm, at the 34 Sector Library.