TODAY -
Festival of Literature, Dance & Music begins
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, March 21 2014 :
A three-day long Festival of Literature, Dance & Music, which is being organized by Writers' Forum, Imphal under the sponsorship of Ministry of Culture, New Delhi kicked-off from today at the auditorium of JN Manipur Dance Academy here.
The inauguration function was attended by Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee, director of KK Birla Foundation as Chief Guest; Aribam Kumar Sharma, president of Writers' Forum as President while Prof N Tombi, scholar; Ranjit Das, poet and L Upendra Sharma, director of JN Manipuri Dance Academy as Presidium Members.
The festival started with Pena recital by Oja Leibakmacha.
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Delivering key note address, Lamabam Viramani, festival co-ordinator, stated that the festival was slated to be held last year to mark the Silver Jubilee with financial assistance from Ministry of Culture but was postponed by a year as there was delayed in granting the financial assistance.
He further said the festival was supposed to be held for five days but again it has been reduced to three days only considering financial constraints.
As part of the programme, 85th edition of 'Sahitya gi Pao', a quarterly journal of Writers' Forum was released.
In the evening session, Book/Art Exhibition, Symposium on Contemporary Literary Scene and poetry recitation were held.
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