A Correspondent
ITANAGAR: The Department of Information& Public Relations (DIPR) will be organizing the 2nd edition of the Arunachal Literature Festival (ALF) at the Dorjee Khandu Convention Centre in Itanagar from November 27 to 29.
Informing about the second edition of ALF, Director, IPR, Obang Tayeng said that the objective of the festival is to provide a common platform to talented individuals to showcase, discuss, celebrate and learn about art and literature. He said the department is putting every effort and leaving no stone unturned to ensure that the festival is a grand success. “All the officers and staff have been engaged to work diligently with meticulous planning for smooth organization of the festival,” Tayeng added.
APLS, president, YD Thongchai said that a festival with a difference is conceptualized to provide hidden talents a chance to swap, learn and share ideas with distinguished authors from the country.
Some of the topics to be discussed by the authors are “Challenges in developing indigenous scripts, Literature and cinema, “Writer’s responsibility”, “North-East as a different center”, “Role of Children’s Literature in nurturing creativity”, “Nationalism in the present scenario”, “Oral literary traditions in India,” etc.
An array of cultural programs, book exhibitions, and film shows will be held silmitiniously in addition to poem writing competition among the school students and college and university students in order to encourage the budding poets of the State.