Kalinga Literary Festival Postponed to Feb 24

Bhubaneswar: The Kalinga Literary Festival is postponed to February 24, 2023. Earlier, it was supposed to be held from December 16-20 in Bhubaneswar.

Around 400 masterpieces from literature, cinema, media, and politics will assemble based on the theme ‘India and the World’.

The event is organized to promote deeper inclusivity across the nation, language, and folklore, the ‘Marga’ and the ‘Deshi’ traditions.

The three-day festival will include several dimensions of interconnections between literature, freedom, republican values, casual diversity, and social equity.

The important sessions will be on topics such as democracy, cultural nationalism, Generation Y, Indian languages, the publishing industry, mythology, media, market, children, women, transgenders, citizen engagement, cinema, sports, ethics, discrimination, revolutions, peacebuilding, conflict resolution, and harmony.

More than 30 new books and monographs will also be released during the Kalinga Literary Festival.

“The 9th Edition of Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF) returns with the promise of hope and optimism. We are delighted to bring back the joy of literary spirit to the temple city of Bhubaneswar,” said Rashmi Ranjan Parida, Founder Director of KLF.

“Four awards in literature will be conferred during the festival — Kalinga Literary Award (for a distinguished writer in Odia), Kalinga International Literary Award (for a writer in any global language), Kalinga Karubaki Literary Award (for women writers), and Kalinga Literary Youth Award (for a young writer in any global language),” Parida added.