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Sahitya
Akademi is aware of cultural and linguistic difference and does
not believe in a forced standardisation of culture through a
bulldozing of levels and attitudes. At the same time, it is also
conscious of the deep inner cultural, spiritual, historical and
experiential links that unify India's diverse manifestations
of literature. Inspite of the pan-Indian character of our literature, writers and readers in one language know very little of what is being written in the neighbouring linguistic area. It is, therefore, necessary to devise methods by which Indian writers may come to know each other, cross the barriers of language and script, and appreciate the immense variety and complexity of their country's literary heritage.  Sahitya Akademi's
programmes are so designed as to heighten literary awareness
among the common readers, to provide a platform of dialogue for
writers of various languages, to create opportunities for academics
to discuss issues of literature and aesthetics, to encourage
critics to reassess their canons, methodologies and tools of analysis and re-evaluate
classical, medieval and modern authors' texts and trends and
to bring the readers face to face with established as well as
upcoming authors. Sahitya Akademi holds, on an average, one hundred
and fifty literary programmes and activities of various types
and scales. Annual seminars in each of the 22 recognised languages
are held following the suggestions from the 22 language advisory
boards - consisting of ten significant writers / scholars / critics
from each - whose constitution changes every five years. These
boards also suggest National Seminars on certain important themes
or on writers and texts whose centenaries, bicentenaries etc.
are being celebrated in a particular year. There are also regional
Seminars suggested by the four Regional Advisory Panels where
the accent is on comparative literature and criticism. International Seminars involving scholars from abroad are also held at regular intervals as those held in recent years on 'Narratives', on 'Indology at Crossroads', on 'The Ramayana Tradition' and on 'Mirza Ghalib's Worlds'. Symposia on topics and authors of contemporary relevance and workshops on genres and for inter-language translations are also held from time to time.
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There has recently been a special emphasis on tribal and folk literatures and the new literatures of the marginalised sections meant to make our programmes more democratic and to share popular concerns. We are also trying to carry our programmes and activities to the interior parts of the country. Besides Seminars, Symposia and Workshops, the Akademi's programmes include Meet the Author, Samvad, Kavisandhi, Kathasandhi, Men and books, Through my Window, Mulakat, Asmita, Antaral, Avishkar, Loka: The Many Voices , Seminars, Samvatsar
Lectures, Workshops on, Literary Translations, Travel Grants
to Authors, Cultural Exchange Programmes, etc. |
| WORKSHOP PROGRAMME HELD SINCE OCTOBER 1999page up |
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| Date | Occasion | Venue |
| To be decided | A five-day Tamil-Hindi-English Translation Workshop to be held in collaboration with Annamalai University, Chidambaram. |
Chidambaram |
| October/November 2005 | Telugu – Malayalam Translation Workshop to be held in collaboration with Nagarjuna University. | Tenali |
| 7-9 December 2005 | A three-day English Short Story Workshop. | Jaipur |
| 10 August 2005 | A one-day inaugural function of the Assamese-Bengali-Oriya Translation Workshop was held | Kolkata |
| 20 August 2004 | A one-day inaugural function of the Punjabi-Rajasthani Translation Workshop was held in collaboration with Sanatan Dharma College and Haryana Punjabi Sahit Akademy. The workshop was inaugurated by Prof. A.K. Chawla, Vice-Chancellor, Kurukshetra University. Sri Desh Bandhu was the guest of honour. Key-note address was delivered by Sri Gurbax Singh Frank. Sri Rattan Singh Dillon gave the introduction while Major U.S. Shergill made the concluding remarks. Sri Malchand Tiwari was the coordinator of the workshop. |
Ambala |
| 11-13 December 2003 | A three-day Creative Writers' Workshop of Young Poets in English. Keki N. Daruwalla, Lakshmi Kannan and Eunice D'Souza were among the participants. | Jaipur |
| 24-27 November 2003 | A four-day Dogri-English Translation was held. | Jammu |
| 18 November 2003 | A one-day Asmita Workshop was held at Bangalore Translation Centre. Participants included Susie Tharu and Rajendra Chenni. | Bangalore |
| 19-20 July 2003 | A Kannada-Tamil translation workshop was held in collaboration with Kalachuvadu Trust, Nagercoil and Gandhi Bhavan, Bangalore University. Participants included Chintamani Kodlekare, Biligere Krishna Murthy, Mansahya Putran, Kanimozhi and others. | Bangalore |
| 26-28 December 2002 | A three-day Dogri-Hindi Translation Workshop was held. | Jammu |
| 26-28 December 2002 | A three-day Kashmiri-Hindi Translation Workshop was held. | Jammu |
| 29 November 2002 | A workshop was held on Oral and Tribal Literature. | Chennai |
| 24 March 2002 | A Poetry Workshop with Manipuri writers was organised in collaboration with Writers' Association. | Kakching |
| 23-26 March 2002 | A Kashmiri-English Translation Workshop was held in collaboration with Department of English, University of Kashmir, where Post-Independence Kashmiri Poetry was translated into English. | Srinagar |
| 14-18 March 2002 | A Tamil-Malayalam Translation Workshop was held in collaboration with Bharatidasan University. Fifty Malayalam short stories and fifty Tamil short stories were taken up for translation. | Tiruchi |
| 4 March 2002 | Sahitya Akademi held a National Workshop in collaboration with Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, on Translation : Theory and Practice. Prof. K. Satchidanandan, Secretary, Sahitya Akademi, delivered the key-note address and Dr. K.P.A. Menon, former Chancellor, presided. | New Delhi |
| 3-7 March 2002 | Sahitya Akademi in collaboration with Lok Bharati Bhavan, Bobasar, held a Workshop on Chhand-Path. | Churu |
| 23-27 March 2001 | A Malayalam-Hindi Poetry Translation Workshop was held in collaboration with Kerala Hindi Prachar Sabha. | Thiruvananthapuram |
| 17-21 March 2001 | A Tamil-Malayalam Translation Workshop on Drama was held in collaboration with Tamil Sangam, Thiruvananthapuram. | Thiruvananthapuram |
| 5-9 February 2001 | An Urdu Literary Translation workshop was organised in collaboration with Idara-e-Adbiyat-e-Urdu. | Hyderabad |
| 6 to 12 November 2000 | Marathi into Gujarati, Konkani & Sindhi Translation workshop in collaboration with Gujarati Sahitya Parishad | Amarpur |
| 30 October 1 November 2000 |
Translation Workshop in Kashmiri | Srinagar |
| 17-21 August 2000 | Manipuri Translation workshop in collaboration with Cultural Forum, Manipur and Jawaharlal Nehru Manipur Dance Academy | Imphal |
| 6-7 August 2000 | A Workshop on 'The Making of a Book'in which production staff of the Sahitya Akademi participated | New Delhi |
| 25-29 June 2000 | Kokborok Translation workshop in collaboration with Kokborok Sahitya Akademi | Agartala |
| 13-14 January 2000 | Fictionists Meet cum-Workshop in collaboration with Taki Municipality and Hasnabad Block Development office in which thirteen young fictionists in Bengali who started their writings in the 70s and the early 80s read out their writings and participated in the discussion. Sri Shyamal ßGangopdhyay inaugurated the workshop, while Prof. Amiya Dev presided. | Taki (W.B.) |
| 25 -29 December 1999 | Maithili workshop where Maithili works were translated into English in collaboration with Samprati (Bihar) | Patna |
| 31 October
to 5 November 1999 |
Gujarati workshop where Gujarati poems of Sundaram, Rajendra Shah and Labhshankar Thaker were translated into Hindi | Mount Abu |
| 27-28 October 1999 | Authors Meet-cum-Workshop on Creative writing where topics such as My Poetry: Form and Felling, My Times and My Rhymes, My Thematic Priorities: My Formalities search, and Bengali fiction were discussed. | Calcutta |
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