Kalinga Literary Festival: A celebration of writers & philosophers

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Amid the majestic climate of Bhubaneswar, the opulence of mystic Kalinga Pageant 2020 (the annual flagship occasion of Kalinga Literary Pageant) got here to an finish with Smita Bellur&#39;s sufi melody, legend of Bhima Bhoi, celebration of Odissi with veteran dancer Aruna Mohanty, poetic verses of Bulleh Shah, Kabir with Harpreet, and with a promise to carry the wave with the competition to literature lovers in August.</p>
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However because the story had one other chapter to inform, the outbreak of novel coronavirus introduced a sudden nationwide lockdown and shutdown. Whereas the severity and uncertainty had been at peak, workforce Kalinga Literary Pageant launched KLF Bhava Samvad, a web based literary platform. Nonetheless, litterateurs, students, fans, and most significantly viewers had been but to go far in understanding of digital medium.</p>
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&quot;Compact, but stylish. This is among the main classes that Covid-19 pandemic taught us,&quot; mentioned the Founder-Director of KLF Rashmi RanjanParida, who believes that change and novelty ought to run collectively.</p>
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KLF Bhava Samvad went dwell on Could 17, final yr, with a poetry-reading panel. That was a chilly breeze to summer time warmth for KLF fanbase. Quickly after the primary digital session of South-Asian literature, the gradual progress of KLF Bhava Samvad begun to mark its slot placing an finish to speculations. Eminent personalities of literature, enterprise, tradition, regulation makers, religious, personalities like Amish Tripathi, Devdutt Pattanaik, Arundhati Subramaniam, Amitav Ghosh, Lord Meghnad Desai, Bibek Debroy, Swami Mukundanand, Sandeep Agarwal,</p>
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In July, Kalinga Literary Pageant organised the primary digital tribal festival- Kandhamal Literary Pageant (Digital) of Japanese India with 50+ audio system and 10+ classes.</p>
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&quot;KLF Bhava Samvad was initiated to maintain the literary spirit intact throughout lockdown due to pandemic. The fast progress of platform and after receiving immense love from the viewers, KLF Bhava Samvad has reached at a exceptional level having legendary literary figures, artistes throughout the globe on board and can proceed to dwell as a everlasting platform,&quot; mentioned Rashmi Ranjan Parida.</p>
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Kalinga Literary Pageant celebrates the artistic spirit of India and commemorates the literary variety it presents, bringing it in dialog with one of the best minds on this planet of literature inside and out of doors of Odisha and India. Again in 2014, the primary ever version of KLF had aimed to advertise the literary and cultural heritage of Odisha or Kalinga (historical identify) and finally flapped wings to fly over Indian subcontinent.</p>
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Academicians, authors, political and social activists, regulation makers, authorities officers, company leaders, college students and other people from all walks of life immerse within the vibrant environment of the competition and change opinions on their favorite authors and works.</p>
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Mystic Kalinga Pageant has emerged as an annual flagship occasion within the cultural calendar of India that rekindles the romance with literature and fosters studying, writing habits, particularly among the many youth. It presents a nationwide platform with a world attraction and bridges the hole between literature in English and different Indian regional languages.</p>
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&#39;Mystic India Pageant&#39;- this was an enormous announcement of final October by KLF.</p>
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Highlights of KLF Bhava Samvad:</p>
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The guts speaks and the thoughts listens, the eyes inform the tales and silence raises our consciousness. As we all know that literature at all times displays society and generally guides as nicely, we at KLF are going to attach with poets, philosophers and writers, to know the way literature has captured this pandemic and the way profitable it has been in reflecting the up to date and ongoing actuality of life.</p>
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Our dialogue, we imagine, is the necessity of the hour to complement human expertise and take us past our limitations and interconnect with common and cosmic vibrations.</p>
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KLF Bhav Samvad&#39;s classes on literature, public coverage, and considering in multiculturalism, humanism have set benchmarks.</p>
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Sanjay Baru — &#39;Past Covid&#39;s Shadow&#39;</p>
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Profound dialogue between Sanjay and Pallavi in and round a really attention-grabbing anthology of financial essays titled Past covid&#39;s shadow.</p>
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Kishwar Desai — Lovely dialog between Kishwar and Rakhee Bakshee on Valentine&#39;s discussing the life and braveness of Devika Rani in Kishwar&#39;s guide &#39;The Longest Kiss&#39;.</p>
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Ameya Prabhu — Ameya Prabhu speaking to Rishabh Kothari in regards to the latest rock in his cap within the type of &#39;Rock Babas And TheOther Tales&#39;.</p>
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Deep Halder — &#39;Blood Island&#39;. Deep elaborating about his guide the Blood island and the unlucky occasions in Marichjhapialong with Abhijeet Majumder whereas speaking to Alo Pal.</p>
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Sanchit Gupta — &#39;Tree With 1000 Apples&#39;. Sanchit in dialog with Mansi Dhanraj about his crucial debut novel &#39;The tree with a thousand apples&#39; and it&#39;s humane story.</p>
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Anita Agnihotri — Anita speaking to Trisha D. Niyogi about her guide &#39;A day within the lifetime of Mangal Taram&#39; and sharing many tales of her life.</p>
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Sharmishtha Mukherjee — &#39;The Presidential Years&#39;. Sharmishtha&#39;s attention-grabbing dialog with Rashid Kidwai in regards to the guide &#39;The Presidential years 2012-2017&#39; and the life and achievements of former President his excellency Pranab Mukherjee.</p>
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Amish Tripathi and Bhavna Roy — &#39;Dharma: Decoding Epics For A Significant Life&#39;. Amish and Bhavna in dialog with Rishabh Kothari about their experiences whereas writing the guide Dharma and plenty of different aspects associated to the guide.</p>
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Ashok Kaul- Prof. Ashok Kaul narrates about mix of Private and political in his guide &#39;Undercover In Bandipore&#39;.</p>
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Shubhrata Prakash — &#39;The D Phrase&#39;. Shubrata in dialog with Rakhee Bakshee about her guide &#39;The D Phrase&#39; and consciousness about psychological well being via the guide.</p>
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Sandeep Bamzai — &#39;Princestan&#39;. Sandeep in a deep dialog with Pallavi Rebbapragada about his guide Princestan, the subsidiary alliance of Princes and the granular breaking down of their empires throughout independence.</p>
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Bibek Debroy — Debroy speaking to Sai Swaroopa Iyerabout his guide &#39;The Bhagavad Gita&#39; for millennial and numerous ideas about Gita.</p>
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Lord Meghnad Desai — &#39;The Rebellious Lord&#39;. Lord Desai in dialog with Pallavi about his guide &#39;The Rebellious Lord&#39; and sharing lots of his invaluable experiences of his life.</p>
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Amitav Ghosh — &#39;The Gun Island&#39;. Amitav Ghosh and Maneesha Taneja (translator, &#39;The Gun Island&#39; (&#39;Bandook Dweep&#39;) discussing the guide and plenty of different life tales with Akshay Mukul.</p>
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Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasiya — Pandit Chaurasiya and SathyaSaran discussing her guide &#39;Hariprasad Chaurasiya: Breath of Gold the Life&#39; tales of Pandit Chaurasiya.</p>
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Reena Puri — &#39;Amar Chitra Katha&#39;. Reena Puri speaking to Jayashree Misra Tripathi about Amar Chitra Katha and her work and expertise through the pandemic interval.</p>
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Keshav Guha- &#39;Unintended Magic&#39;. Keshav speaking to Atul Ok. Thakur about his guide &#39;Unintended Magic&#39; and numerous different facets.</p>
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Swami Mukundanand — &#39;The Science Of Thoughts Administration&#39;. Swami Mukundanand in a fruitful dialog with Medha Shri Dahiya about his guide &#39;The Science of Thoughts Administration&#39; and sharing numerous experiences from his life.</p>
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Sandeep Agarwal — &#39;Fall Once more, Rise Once more&#39;. Sandeep in dialog with Shashank Sethi about his guide Rise once more, fall once more and throwing mild on the world of enterprise and his life experiences.</p>
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Bhawana Somayaa — &#39;Letters To Mom&#39;. Bhawana Somayaa in dialog with Rakhee Bakshee about her guide &#39;Letters to Mom&#39; and forming a join with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.</p>
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Devdutt Pattanaik — Devdutt Pattnaik speaking to Prateek Pattanaik about Ramayanas and Ramayanas in Odisha, tales and songs.</p>
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Michiel Baas — Michiel Baas in dialog with Aruni Kashyapabout his guide &#39;Muscular India&#39; and his life tales.</p>
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Abhinandan Sekhri — Abhinandan in dialog with VineetKumar about up to date media and its affect on at present&#39;s date.</p>
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Nayantara Sehgal — Nayantara Sehgal in dialog with Kedar Mishra about present pandemic occasions and the longer term that&#39;s forward.</p>
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Ok. Sachidanandan — Ok. Sachidanandan speaking to Kedar Mishra in regards to the pandemic period and his experiences in life.</p>
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Mukul Kumar — Mukul in dialog with Payal Roy Chowdhury about his life and profession in literature and forms.</p>
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Archana Soreng — Archana speaking to Itishree Nayak about her undertaking on the notice about local weather change.</p>
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Dutee Chand — Ace sprinter Dutee Chand in dialog with Itishree Nayak about her life and preparation through the pandemic interval.</p>
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Subroto Bagchi — Subroto Bagchi in dialog with KedarMishra in regards to the scenario round an uncommon pandemic interval.</p>
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Arundhati Subramaniam — Arundhati in dialog with Prof. Tisha Srivastav about poetry, literature and life throughout pandemic.</p>
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Pratibha Ray — Prativa Ray in dialog with Debashish Samantaray about Adibhumi Kandhamal and it&#39;s wealthy tradition and heritage.</p>
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Amish Tripathi — Amish in dialog with Kamala KantaDash about mythology and bursting the myths about Indian readers.</p>
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Shantanu Gupta — Shantanu Gupta in dialog with RajitaKulkarni about management.</p>
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Haldhar Nag — Individuals&#39;s poet Haldhar Nag in dialog with Kedar Mishra about poetry in Odia and Kosali language and variety.</p>
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TT Ram Mohan — Prof. TT Ram Mohan in dialog with Atul Ok. Thakur on his guide &#39;Rebels With A Trigger&#39;.</p>
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On a concluding observe, Parida opines, &quot;KLF Bhava Samvadwas initiated to maintain the literary spirit intact throughout lockdown due to pandemic. However the fast progress of the platform and after receiving immense love from the viewers, KLF Bhava Samvadhas reached its one hundred and fiftieth session with legendary literary figures, artistes throughout the globe and can proceed to dwell as a everlasting platform.&quot;</p>
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Odisha Diary Basis (ODF) and Rythm Pageant Pvt Ltd are organising annual Kalinga Literary Pageant, Mystic Kalinga Pageant (KLF), Kandhamal Literary Pageant, KLF in Koraput yearly. Annual Kalinga Literary Pageant, Mystic Kalinga Pageant (MKF) to have a good time the artistic spirit of India and commemorate the literary variety it presents, bringing it in dialog with one of the best minds on this planet of literature inside and out of doors of Odisha and India.</p>
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Lecturers, authors, political and social activists, regulation makers, authorities officers, company leaders, college students and other people from all walks of life immerse within the vibrant environment of the competition and change opinions on their favorite authors and works.</p>
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Mystic Kalinga Pageant has emerged as an Annual Flagship occasion within the cultural calendar of India and our focus is to rekindle the romance with literature and foster studying and writing habits, particularly among the many youth. It presents a nationwide platform with a world attraction and bridges the hole between literature in English and different Indian regional languages.&quot;</p>