Imphal Literature Festival held
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 28 2020:
The 8th edition of Imphal Literature Festival was held today at Manipur Press Club organised by Sahitya Thoupang Lup (Sathoulup) .
Mutum Ramani, Secretary of Manipur Legislative Assembly, Nongmaithem Kirankumar, convenor of Manipur Advisory Board Sahitya Akademi and Taiyeebur Rahman, research scholar of Kingston University, London graced the occasion as the presidium members.
As a part of the event, a poetry book titled Atiyagi Manai' written by Waikhom Amuchou Meitei was released.
Yuva Puraskar awardee Tongbram Amarjit gave a lecture on the topic 'Covid and Literature' and a poetry reading session was also held participated by 15 people.
Speaking as the chief guest, Mutum Ramani lauded Sathoulup for organising literature festival adhering to Covid SOPs and requested all the literature lovers to attend such festival.
She further appealed to all the writers to pen down good literature pieces in the interest of the society and to preserve it for the future generation as well.