MALAYALAM FESTIVAL
Poets, novelists, and language
experts will assemble here for a three-day festival celebrating the glory of
Malayalam language and tradition from Tuesday,30TH October,2012.The
festival, Viswa Malayala Mahotsavam, organised by the Department of Cultural
Affairs and the Kerala Sahithya Akademi, will be inaugurated at the University
Senate Hall by President Pranab Mukherjee at 10.30 a.m.From the afternoon,
Chandrasekharan Nair Stadium, VJT Hall and Kanakakunnu Palace will become
venues for poetry recitals, seminars and discussions on the craft of
storytelling.
Various forms of Kerala’s
traditional dance and cultural programmes will be staged in the evenings.Lovers
of literature will get a rare opportunity to listen to the African writer Ben
Okri, a Booker-Prize-winner, on Wednesday. Mr. Okri’s programme will be held at
the Olympia Chamber at Chandrasekharan Nair Stadium at 10 a.m.The writer will
be introduced to the audience by Chief Secretary K. Jayakumar, who is himself a
poet and writer, and Thiruvananthapuram MP and Union Minister of State Shashi
Tharoor, who is an acclaimed writer himself.Among the programmes slated for
Tuesday are a discussion on “The poet and the poem” (VJT Hall at 2.30 p.m.); a
seminar on “We and our language” (Kanakakunnu Palace at 2.30 p.m.); a seminar
on folk arts culture (Kanakakunnu Palace at 5 p.m.); a seminar on Malayalam
cinema as an expression of art (Olympia Chamber at Chandrasekharan Nair Stadium
at 2.30 p.m.) and another seminar on new media (at the stadium at 2.30 p.m.)
Prof. John Kurakar
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