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Literature is our Heritage




Karnavati or Ahmedabad is going on a fast track, or bullet track probably...

Big projects like Metro rail, Bullet train and Gollywood growing is about the recent developments. Adding feather to its cap has been declaration of Ahmedabad as first Heritage city of India. Apart from architectural heritage..literary works too add to it.

The city undoubtedly is moving on fast track; yet at the same time is connected with it's roots. Second season of Ahmedabad International  Literature Festival is a loud testimony itself, wrapped up with Heritage as the Theme. Today curtains were drawn after the two day action packed event which witnessed presence of authors, actors, professors, poets, journalists, film-makers from across age- groups to discuss, debate, deconstruct and celebrate literature.






Famous Bollywood star, Annu Kapoor yesterday was present for the inaugural function. A series of sessions and workshops were organised running in  parallel at Ahmedabad Management Association. Renowned personalities like Esther David, Sharmila Sagara, Prof. Arthur Duff, Padmashree Ashok Chakradhar, Tusshar Shukla, Anil Chavda, Sudeep Nagarkar, Neepa Singh, Arvind Veghda, Sarasvatichandra Acharya, Vihang Naik etc

Mallika Sarabhai shared her experiences of facing challenges as a woman, bringing up her two children single handedly, and the battles she had to fight to let her voice out in Patriarchal society.

Apart from various workshops organised for young talent and children.. the key highlight was the thrust put on story telling, celebrating the spirit of story telling and poetry.

Conclusion: Heritage is also our literature and vice versa..... And AILF is a commendable initiative towards revival, conservation and evolution of literary works.


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