Literature festival in Belagavi

The Belagavi Sahityotsava, a lit fest, organised successful Belagavi saw a ample information from writers and thinkers connected Sunday.

A assortment of taste programmes were organised successful the day-long festival astatine the KLS Institute of Management Education and Research (IMER).

Veteran writer Raghavendra Patil inaugurated the lit festival by releasing a enactment by Gurudevi Huleppanavaramath. He called upon younker to usage societal media wisely. He said that the quality tone should stay autarkic and not beryllium a enslaved to technological tools. “It seems modern exertion is processing demonic tendencies successful humans. Music and lit person the powerfulness to destruct this. Therefore, we request to make a sensation for euphony and lit successful children,” helium said.

Writer and translator Chandrakant Pokale, who presided implicit the event, spoke successful favour of autarkic lit festivals. “Several Marathi organisations clasp Marathi literate festivals successful galore villages. We could the same,” helium said.

Convenor Shirish Joshi said this lawsuit was the archetypal specified literate festival organised by Parimala Publications and Parimala Cultural Channel. We person tried to bring unneurotic assorted creation forms similar music, literature, drama. It volition beryllium an yearly affair, helium said.

Writer P.G. Kempannavar spoke astir “Poetic Heritage of Belagavi District”. Journalists Devu Pattar and M.K. Hegde participated successful a sheet treatment connected “Cultural Responsibilities of the Media”.

N.S. Sridharamurthy of Bengaluru gave a lecture connected Da Ra Bendre’s enactment ‘Nakuthanti’ successful the discourse of the aureate jubilee of Jnanpith grant to Dr. Bendre.

Basavaraja Jagajampi, L.S. Shastri, Gundenatti Madhukar, Sridhar Hukkeri, and others participated successful the league connected wit and humour.

Prakash Garud, Raghu Kammara, Ramakrishna Marathe, Aravind Kulkarni, Ravi Kotaragasti, and others spoke connected modern theatre. Sangeetha Patil and H.B. Rajashekar spoke connected “Me and my book”. Gurupada Mariguddi gave a lecture connected Kuvempu novels.

Shyamasundara Bidarakundi delivered the valedictory lecture. Writer Sarjoo Katkar, B.S. Gavimath, and Sharanaya Mathapati compered, and others were present. The lawsuit was supported by the District Sahitya Pratishthan, Rangasrishti, Bijapure Harmonium Pratishthan, and IMER.