“Mimansa” opportunity to give creativity new wings
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Shimla, Mar 01 – Language & Culture Department, HP in Collaboration with Keekli Charitable Trust is going to organise “Children’s Literature Festival 2023 – Mimansa” from March 17 to 19 at the historic Gaiety theatre. The Three Days Literature Festival will cater
to Children’s Literature as well as focus on various Inter-School Literary Competitions such as Declamation; Vocabulary Skills and Slogan Writing, Poster Making, Bookmark making. Students under the age groups of 25 years from school, college and university can participate in the various activities.
“The event is open to all and anyone can participate by filling the form online submitting the same by mail one can also call us and get the necessary directions for participation. The winners of the various competitions will be awarded with rewards. There’s no participation fee and further children will be given opportunity to get groomed by eminent writers”, shared Vandana.
The team behind organizing this event is spearheaded by Director, Language & Culture Department; Vandana Bhagra, President Keekli Charitable Trust and an erudite panel comprising of Dr Usha Bande, Professor & Principal Meenakshi Faith Paul, Dr Jaiwanti Dimri and Ms Namita Lal, who have meticulously planned each and every event.
The idea is to give an open forum to children, to hear them speak, engage in interactive sessions as well as promote reading among them. II, is an attempt to give voice to children’s writings, be it in form of books, short story narration or poetry recitation, all penned by them.
The morning session will be from 9.30 am to 11.00 am for Inter-School Competitions.
• Two Sessions from 11.00 am to 1.00 pm and 1.30 to 4.00 pm, will feature Open Mic
Readings which will include poetry, flash fiction, micro stories or short stories, and
book reviews and discussion.
The chief guest for the inaugural session on 17 March is Ms Khyrunnisa A, an award-winning writer of children’s fiction who also writes for adults. She created the popular comic character Butterfingers for the magazine Tinkle and authored the hilarious Butterfingers series of books for older children.
She is a full-time writer and lives in Thiruvananthapuram.
The chief guest for the closing session on 19 March is Benita Sen is a journalist and award-winning children’s author who is also a trained teacher and editor. She has authored dozens of fact, fiction, activity and text books. She’s also a qualified corporate communicator.
Joining them during this period will be Sri Shriniwas Joshi (Critic/Author); Dr Usha Bande
(Educationist/Author); Dr Jaiwanti Dimri (Educationist/Author); Prof & Principal Meenakshi Faith Paul (Educationist/Author); Namita Lal (Principal retd); Minakshi Chaudhry (Mentor/Author); Dr Purnima Chauhan (IAS retd, HP); Sutapa Basu (Educationist/Author); Gupteshwar Nath Upadhyay (Teacher retd/Writer); Vivek Mohan (Advertising Professional/Filmmaker);
