Literary Forum is a regular programme held in different offices or regions. It features talks, dialogues, and readings by Indian/foreign scholars and writers. Taken together, it is like a literary miscellany.  Programs in the North Eastern Languages

Literary Forum meet on Shakti Chattopadhya, Calcutta

LITERARY FORUM PROGRAMME SINCE OCTOBER 1999page up
Date	Occasion	Venue
To be decided	Poets' Meet to be held.	Chennai
To be decided	Ten young poets from Malayalam and Tamil each to participate in a two-day programme.	To be decided
To be decided	Play reading by Prasanna, eminent Kannada writer.	Bangalore
To be decided	Play reading by Girish Karnad, eminent Kannada writer.	Bangalore
To be decided	Young Kannada Writers' Conference.	Dharwar
To be decided	Programme to be decided	South Canara
To be decided	Programme to be decided	Kasargod
To be decided	Programme to be decided	Visakhapatnam
To be decided	Programme to be decided	Vizianagaram
16 September 2005	A panel discussion on literature of Sri S.N. Pendse, Marathi fiction writer, in collaboration with Samvad.	Mumbai
17 July 2005	A programme was held with Ms. Aruna Dhere, Sri Pramod Bapat, Sri Ashok Chachad, Smt. Uttara Mane, Mrs. Urmila Mhatre, Sri Keskar and Sri Devlakar.	Mumbai
15 July 2005	A panel discussion on literature of late Sri G.N. Dandekar, eminent Marathi writer and award winner of the Akademi, was held in collaboration with Samvad.	Mumbai
12 July 2005	An evening of poetry readings by Sri Ashutosh Dubey, Ms. Nirmala Garg and Sri Hemant Kukreti was held.	New Delhi
17 June 2005	A programme in collaboration with Samvad was held in which panel discussion on writings of Aruna Dhere took place.	Mumbai
9 June 2005	A programme was held wherein Sri Narayan Surve, eminent Marathi poet and Convener of the Marathi Advisory Board of the Sahitya Akademi, read from his poems.	Hyderabad
3 May 2005	A meeting with Qamar Shehbaz, an eminent Sindhi writer, poet, playwright and columnist from Pakistan, was held.	Mumbai
19 April 2005	A programme was held wherein Sri Shamik Bandyopadhyay, eminent scholar, media person and theatre critic, spoke on The Performer and her Memories: Actresses' Autobiographies.	New Delhi
18 April 2005	An exhaustive discussion on Science fiction in Marathi was held in collaboration with Samvad. Sri Pramod Bapat welcomed the audience and initiated the discussion. The programme was well attended. Works of Dr. Jayant Narlikar, Sri Laxman Londhe and others were discussed.	Mumbai
6 April 2005	A programme was held wherein Mr. Jonathan Cook, Director for Creative and Performing Arts and Dean, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of East Anglia spoke on The Significance of Creative Writing in the 21 st Century.	New Delhi
31 March 2005	A Literary Meet was held with the participation of Sri Shafey Kidwai, Ms. Tarannum Riyaz, Sri Balraj Komal, Sri Ambar Bahraichi, Sri Baig Ehsas, Sri Roshan Ara ‘Dilber’, Sri Makhmoor Saeedi, Sri Nizam Siddiqui, Sri Sheen Kaaf Nizam and Sri Gulzar. Professor Gopi Chand Narang, President, Sahitya Akademi, was the chief guest.	Mumbai
30 March 2005	Mr. Al Young, a renowned American Poet, novelist and essayist, spoke on Literature as an expression of Eternity and also read from his works, especially poems.
29 March 2005	Texture, Tone, Topography: A Candlelit evening of Poetry and Jazz by Tom Alter, Rajeev Raja and Sudeep Sen was held in collaboration with Poetry Society (India). Sudeep Sen’s work Distracted Geographies, Prayer Flag and Rain was released. Leela Samson, Idrak Bhatty and Malashri Lal spoke on the occasion	New Delhi
18 March 2005	A programme to mark the birth centenary of Late Malati Bedekar and the international women’s day was held in collaboration with Samvad in which books written by her were discussed. Sri Pramod Bapat welcomed the gathering and Ms. Uttara More proposed a vote of thanks	Mumbai
12 March 2005	A symposium on Hindi-Marathi : Aadan-Pradan was held wherein Sri Damodar Khadse, Ms. Vasantika Puntambekar, Sri Jayprakash Savant and Sri Balwant Jeurkar and Smt. Pushpa Bharati participated.	Mumbai
25 February 2005	Professor Hans Henrich Hock, Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois, spoke on Indo-Aryan and Dravidian Languages : The Question of Kinship.	New Delhi
18 February 2005	A panel discussion on Periodicals and Journals was held in collaboration with Samvad	Mumbai
3 February 2005	A panel discussion on Hindi-Urdu teaching in Japanese Universities and Indian Cultural Activities was held. Professor So Yamane, Professor Takamitsu Matsumura, Japanese academicians, and Professor Tabassum Kashmiri, Pakistani Visiting Professor and scholar, participated and interacted with the local writers	New Delhi
27 January 2005	An evening of poetry readings by Dr. Lakshmi Kannan, Ms. Ketaki Kushari Dyson, Ms. Anna Sujatha Mathai and Ms. Priya Sarukkai Chabria was held in collaboration with India International Centre and The Poetry Society (India). Life on my side of the street, In that sense you touched it, Unquiet Waters and Dialogue and other poems carrying poems by the above poets published by the Sahitya Akademi were released by Sri Dilip Padgaonkar, Editor, Times of India. Dr. (Smt.) Malashri Lal presided	New Delhi
6 January 2005	A programme in collaboration with Dogri Sanstha, Jammu, was held in which panel discussion on How to make Dogri popular took place. Prof. Champa Sharma, stalwart of Dogri literature, Sri Chatterpal, an established short story writer and media personality, Sri Nirmal Vinod, an educationist and poet and Sri Shiv dutt, a telefilm producer and cultural activist took part. Sri Ved Bhasin, Chairman Kashmiri Times Group of Publications presided over the function. A large number of Dogri writers, journalists, social activists and prominent persons of Jammu participated in the programme. Prof. Lalit Mangotra, Convener, Dogri Advisory Board of the Akademi, proposed a vote of thanks.	Jammu
29 December 2004	A programme in collaboration with Nikhil Bharat Banga Sahitya Sammelan was held in which Dr. Dhrubajyoti Borah (Assamese), Smt. Meenakshi Sen (Bengali), Sri A. Kumar Sharma (Manipuri), Sri Nabasapcota (Nepali) and Dr. Bhaskar Rao (Hindi) spoke on Recent Trends in North East Literature. Prof. Joychandra Singh presided over the function	Jamshedpur
24 December 2004	A programme with Prof. Gholum Murshid discoursing on Undivided Bengali Culture : In Search of a Maya Mriga was held	Kolkata
17 December 2004	A panel discussion was held in collaboration with Samvad on the writings/poetry of Samarth Ramdas, the saint poet.	Mumbai
6 December 2004	An evening of poetry was held with Ms. Roohi Majid, eminent English and Urdu poet and Sri Vivek Narayan, eminent English poet.	New Delhi
16 November 2004	A Nepali Women Writers’ Meet was held.	Kurseong
16 November 2004	An Indo-Russian Literary Conference on great contemporaries viz. Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore was held wherein delegation of Russian writers and prominent Indian writers participated.	Mumbai
24 September 2004	A programme in collaboration with Samvad was held in which panel discussion on the writings of (Late) Vidyadhar Gokhale, eminent Marathi playwright, poet, critic and journalist.	Mumbai
23 August 2004	An evening with eminent Pakistani writers was held. Ahmad Faraz, Intizar Husain, Zohra Nigah, Ata-ul-Haq Qasmi, Saher Ansari, Asgar Nadim Sayyed, Salim Akhtar and Yasir Iqbal read from their works and interacted with the audience.	New Delhi
23 August 2004	A programme was held in which Salam Bin Razzaq, Muqaddar Hameed and Abdul Aziz Khan read their Urdu short stories where as Sajid Rashid and Ilyas Shauqi promoted the discussion.	Mumbai
23 August 2004	Reading of Urdu short stories and discussion.	Mumbai
23 July 2004	A programme on Nepali Literature Today	Kolkata
16 July 2004	A programme was held in collaboration with Samvad, a literary organisation, wherein participants discussed the writings of (Late) V.P. Kale, eminent Marathi writer, artist, story narrator and architect by profession.	Mumbai
30 June 2004	An evening of reading of Filmmaker/Dramaturge, Arun Kuckreja's miniature autobiography Bonsoi by Uma Vasudev and The Bhagvad Gita by Sunit Tandon.	New Delhi
18 June 2004	A programme was held in which members of Samvad, a literary organisation, participated and discussed the writings of Anil Awachat.	Mumbai
2 June 2004	An evening of poetry was held with Sri K. Jayakumar, eminent Malayalam and English poet	New Delhi
21 May 2004	Ved Rahi, eminent Dogri and Hindi poet, short story writer and film maker, spoke on the literary achievements of Veer Savarkar, in a programme held in collaboration with Samvad.	Mumbai
10 May 2004	Rabin Roychowdhary, eminent Bengali writer and translator from Andaman, participated in a programme.	Mumbai
16 April 2004	A programme was held in collaboration with Samwad in which Dr. M.D. Paradkar participated.	Mumbai
2 March 2004	An evening of poetry was held with Frank Andre Jamme, eminent French poet whose translations in Hindi were read by Udayan Vajpeyi, outstanding Hindi poet and translator.	New Delhi
4 February 2004	A programme of talk, reading and interaction in which Cuban writer Mr. Rafael Hernandez of Havana University participated	New Delhi
19 January 2004	An evening of poetry with Joseph Woods, eminent Irish poet was held in collaboration with Embassy of Ireland.	New Delhi
13-14 January 2004	Young Writers' Meet at Goa	Goa
30 December 2003	Marathi Ghazal Sandhya was held in collaboration with Mumbai Marathi Grantha Sangrahalaya.	Mumbai
21 November 2003	An evening of poetry with Dr. S.V. Rama Rao (Telugu) and Sri Manohar Bandyopadhyay (English).	New Delhi
12 November 2003	A programme to mark the Birth Centenary of Jyotiprasad Agarwalla in collaboration with Department of Assamese, Dibrugarh University.	Dibrugarh
11 November 2003	A programme to mark the Birth Centenary of Niharranjan Ray.	Kolkata
23 September 2003	A programme was held in memoriam of Bimal Kar, eminent Bengali writer. Syed Mustafa Siraj, Subrata Mukhopadhyay, Rusati Sen, Saibal Mitra and Dibyendu Palit spoke on the occasion.	Kolkata
19 September 2003	A programme was held to mark the birth centenary of Radharani Devi. Dr. Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay, Regional Secretary, Sahitya Akademi, gave the welcome speech and Jasodhara Bagchi presided over.	Kolkata
13 September 2003	Kannadasan Festival was held in collaboration with Kannadasan Narpani Manram.	Madurai
12 September 2003	An evening of reading of excerpts from the novel We Weren't Lovers Like That by Navtej Sarna, noted English fiction writer, followed by an interaction by the author.	New Delhi
7 September 2003	A Poets' Meet was held in collaboration with Dr. A.V. Baliga College and Abhinava Cultural Forum, Kumta, at the time of Book Exhibition.	Kumta (Karnataka)
4 September 2003	An evening of poetry with Brajendra Kumar Brahma, eminent Bodo poet.	New Delhi
2 September 2003	A talk by Chiranjeet, renowned Hindi playwright, on Hindi Radio Natya Vidha.	New Delhi
24 August 2003	A Poets' Meet was held in which C. Narayana Reddy, eminent Telugu poet and Jnanpith awardee was the Chief Guest.	Hyderabad
20 August 2003	A talk by Chaman Nahal, eminent Indian writer in English, on Small Scale Philanthropy and Literature.	New Delhi
23 July 2003	A Punjabi Poets' Meet was held in collaboration with Chandigarh Sahitya Academy.	Chandigarh
27 June 2003	A programme on Bengali Poetry Outside Bengal was held where Smt Rajlakshmee Debee, Sri Pijush Routh, Sri Saktipada Brahmachari and Sri Kamal Chakraborty participated. Sri Dibyendu Palit, eminent Bengali poet and fiction writer, presided.	Kolkata
20 June 2003	An evening of poetry with Amit Dahiyabadshah (English) and Usman Bhai 'Fauji' (Mev from Haryana).	New Delhi
20 May 2003	A discussion on Making of Books.	Kolkata
5 May 2003	A Multilingual Poets' Meet was held where Professor Gopi Chand Narang, Sri Sunil Gangopadhyay, Professor K. Satchidanandan, Dr. E.V. Ramakrishnan, Dr. Chandrashekhar Kambar, Dr. Uday Narayan Singh and others participated.	Bangalore
3 May 2003	A Marathi-Malayalam Young Poets' Meet was held in collaboration with IRRIPPU.	Mumbai
6 February 2003	An evening of poetry with Gautam Das Gupta (Bengali), Vikram Singh (Hindi) and Tejdeep Kaur Menon (English).	New Delhi
30 January 2003	A Multilingual Poets' Meet was held in collaboration with Publishers and Booksellers Guild. Three eminent poets Sri Ramakanta Rath (Oriya), Professor K. Satchidanandan (Malayalam) and Sri Sunil Gangopadhyay (Bengali) read their poems.	Kolkata
20 January 2003	Swami Buddhanand, scholar and Chairman, Foundation for Human Values and Development and International Peace Research Institute, spoke on Creative Dimensions of Science and Peace.	New Delhi
6 January 2003	Sri Balachandran Chullikkad, eminent Malayalam poet, and Sri K. V. Shylaja, noted translator in Tamil, participated in a Kavi-Anuvadak programme.	Chennai
14 December 2002	Dr. L. M. Singhvi, renowned litterateur and Jurist, spoke on Rajasthani Literature: New and Old Perspectives. Dr. Chandra Prakash Deval delivered the introductory address and Sri. Vijaydan Detha presided.	New Delhi
9 December 2002	An evening of poetry with Dr. Meena Alexander, eminent Indian poet in English.	New Delhi
7-8 December 2002	A Dogri Womens Writer's Conference held in collaboration with Dogri Sansthan.	Jammu
26 November 2002	Sri Manoj Das, eminent Oriya writer, spoke on Human Predicament and the Mystic Folklore.	New Delhi
24 November 2002	Sri Manglesh Dabral, eminent Hindi poet, and Sri Ganesh Vispute, poet and translator, participated in a Kavi-Anuvadak programme held in collaboration with Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad, Lasal Gaon.	Lasal Gaon (Maharashtra)
15 November 2002	In Memoriam: Annada Sankar Ray.	Kolkata
8 October 2002	An evening of reading with Sri Narendra Mohan, eminent Hindi writer, of his literary diary Sath-Sath Mera Saya.	New Delhi
29 August 2002	Sweekar : A Swedish Evening in Karnataka was held as part of the celebration of the centenary of the Noble Prize. Professor K. Satchidanandan delivered the welcome address and gave introduction to the Indo-Swedish literary project. H. E. Johan Nordenfelt, Ambassador of Sweden to India released Haavina Donku, Kannada translation of Torgny Lindgren's Swedish novel ­ Omens Vag Pa Halleberet. Overview of the Indo-Swedish Theatre project was presented by Sri Prasanna. Professor U.R. Anantha Murthy presided. Dr. Vanamala Viswanatha spoke On translation as collaboration. While Mr. Zac O'Yeah, Ms. Pratibha Nandakumar and Sri A. Krishna Murthy read from translated works.	Bangalore
17 August 2002	In a poetry reading programme, Sri Dholan Rahi, Shrikant 'Sidaf', Khemani Molani, Nari Lachhani and Nalu Megh participated.	Gwalior
6 August 2002	Sri Ravuri Bharadwaja, distinguished Telugu writer, read his short fiction and Sri R.A. Padmanabharao, eminent Telugu writer, read English translations.	New Delhi
26 July 2002	Sri Prayag Shukla, eminent Hindi poet, translator and art critic, read from his Hindi translation of Tagore's Gitanjali.	New Delhi
19 July 2002	Professor. K. Ayyappa Paniker, eminent Malayalam poet, read his historic poem on Gothrayanam and Sri Neela Padmanabhan, eminent writer and translator, read the poem in Tamil translation in verse.	Chennai
15 July 2002	A literary programme where Sri Satti Khanna spoke on India in the American Imagination : The U.S. in the Indian Imagination.	New Delhi
27 June 2002	A symposium was held to mark the Birth-centenary of Amulyadhan Mukhopadhyay.	Kolkata
23 June 2002	A symposium on Modern Malayalam-Bangla Literature was held in collaboration with Manas.	Kolkata
22 June 2002	Reading of play Sabse Udas Kavita by Swadesh Deepak, the well-known Hindi playwright. Sri Namwar Singh presided.	New Delhi
13 June 2002	R. K. Jhalajit Singh, Bhaskar Chakraborty, Kh Prakash Singh, Manjush Dasgupta, Ibopisak Singh, Jaya Mitra, Memchoubi Devi and Mallika Sengupta read poems in a Manipuri-Bangla Poets' Meet. Sri L Joychandra Singh presided.	Kolkata
28 May 2002	A Poet's Meet was held.	Mumbai
25 May 2002	The Masti Memorial Special Lecture - 2002 - Ramayana : The Great Banyan Tree - was delivered by Dr. Indira Goswami. Smt. V. S. Ramadevi, Hon'ble Governor of Karnataka was the chief guest. Professor U. R. Ananthamurthy presided.	Bangalore
14 May 2002	A get-together with local writers. Smt. K. Geeta, poet and short-story writer from Telugu, was the special guest.	Kolkata
11 May 2002	A Nepali Poet's Meet was held.	Kalimpong
10 May 2002	An evening with young Bangla poets was held in collaboration with Foundation of SAARC writers and literature.	Kolkata
11 April 2002	A colloquium on The Writer and His/Her Milieu held in the context of the Words and Images, a photo-exhibition of Indian writers by B. Jayachandran. Sri Bhisham Sahni, Nirmal Verma, Kartar Singh Duggal, Indira Goswami, Padma Sachdev and Ajeet Cour spoke. Sri Gopi Chand Narang, Vice-President, Sahitya Akademi, presided. Sri Thomas Jacob (Malayala Manorama) and B. Jayachandran (Photographer) spoke about the exhibition.	New Delhi
11 April 2002	H. E. Shri Krishan Kant, the Hon'ble Vice-President of India, inaugurated "Words and Images", a unique photo-exhibition of Indian writers and their milieu in collaboration with Malayala Manorama, Kerala Travels and Interserve Ltd., Sky TV and Mahindra Holidays.	New Delhi
25 March 2002	A programme on Relations between Culture and Literature was held in collaboration with Centre for Comparative Studies.	Dibrugarh
16 - 17 March 2002	A North-Eastern and Southern Fiction Writers' Meet was held.	ßBangalore
12 March 2002	A programme of Screening of two films by Sri Sandip Ray.	Kolkata
12 March 2002	A colloquium on Epistemologies for Composing Audio-Visual Units was held in collaboration with The Delhi Centre of Temple of Understanding.	New Delhi
9 March 2002	Sri Krishin Rahi, eminent Sindhi poet, and Maya Rahi, poet and translator, participated in a programme held in collaboration with Madhya Pradesh Sindhi Sahitya Academy.	Bhopal
6 March 2002	A literary evening with Sri Madhav Borkar and Rajan Gawas was held as part of the International Book Year.	Panaji
23 February 2002	A discussion was held on Indian short story Today in collaboration with Galpar Adda.	Kolkata
11 February 2002	Sri Ravindra Pinge, a noted Marathi writer, participated.	Bangalore
10 February 2002	Sri Paul Zackaria and Ms. Bhagyasree, Malayalam poets, Ms. Jayashree and Bhava Chelladurai, Tamil poets, participated in a poetry reading programme.	Chennai
27 January 2002	Poems and short stories were read in a programme held in collaboration with the Tamil Ilakkiya Peravai.	Erode
24 January 2002	Sri Sunil Gangopadhyay, Sri Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay and Sri Dibyandu Palit spoke in a meeting In Memoriam : Baren Gangopahdyay.	Kolkata
22 January 2002	The Party of the Gods was released at a special function.	New Delhi
21 January 2002	Professor K. Satchidanandan, eminent Malayalam poet, and Sri Sirpi Balasubramanian, noted Tamil writer and translator, participated.	Chennai
14-15 January 2002	Jayadeva Utsav ­ 2000 was held.	New Delhi
6 January 2002	Nepali poets and fiction writers read their poems and short stories.	Midnapore
3 January 2002	Sri Satyasheel Pachori, North Florida University, USA, and Editor, South Asian Review, spoke on John Keats and Buddhism.	New Delhi
30 December 2001	A Poet's Meet was held.	Silchar
10 December 2001	Dr. Sumathendra Nadig, noted Kannada writer, and Sri Subodh Sarkar participated.	Kolkata
4 December 2001	An evening of Play and Poetry reading by Dr. Sisir Kumar Das, eminent Bengali writer.	Kolkata
30 November 2001	Srijan Utsav : An evening of poetry reading in Srijan Bhumi.	Purulia (W.B.)
24 November 2001	A programme was held with Prasadaraya Kulapati.	Hosur (A.P.)
24 November 2001	A Poets' Meet was held.	Bangalore
18 November 2001	A short story and poetry reading programme was held.	Thiruvananthapuram
12 November 2001	A Round Table discussion on Manipuri and Bengali Theatre Today was held.	Kolkata
1 November 2001	A Poets' Meet was held.	Gulbarg
1 November 2001	Bhartiya Saundarya Bodh aur Tulsidas in Hindi was released at a special function.	New Delhi
22 October 2001	An Evening of short stories with Dr. Madhuranthakam Narendra, Telugu writer, and Dr. Rajan Gavas, Marathi writer, with translations.	New Delhi
20 October 2001	Professor K. Satchidanandan, eminent Malayalam poet, and Ms. Rati Saxena participated.	Mumbai
16 October 2001	A Round Table discussion with Sri Deelip Jhaveri.	Kolkata
15 October 2001	A programme : In Memoriam of Shyamal Gangopadhyay was held to pay tributes.	Kolkata
12 October 2001	Kavita Charcha : Bengali poetry Reading ­ cum-Discussion with young writers.	Kolkata
8 October 2001	An Evening of Maithili poetry.	Kolkata
6 October 2001	An evening with Indira J. Amirthanayagam.	Bangalore
6 October 2001	An Evening of poetry with Sri Samir Tanti, Assamese poet, Dr. Smita Agarwal, English poet, and Sri Dnyaneswar Manohar Mulay, Marathi poet.	New Delhi
31 March 2001	A Oriya Short story reading programme held.	Kolkata
31 March 2001	A short story reading session was held.	Guwahati
29 March 2001	A meeting on The Imprint of Sanskrit on Assamese Literature.	Guwahati
27 ­ 29 March 2001	A Tamil-Malayalam Poetry Festival held in collaboration with the International Institute of Tamil Studies	Chennai
27 March 2001	A meeting on Architecture, Art and Literature	Kolkata
23 March 2001	A meeting on concept of Comparative Literature.	Dibrugarh
21 March 2001	A meeting on problems and prospects of Bengali translation in Indian Poetry.	Kolkata
17 March 2001	A Kavisandhya in Maithili was held.	Samastipur
13 March 2001	Sri Nabarun Bhattacharya, noted Bengali writer, read from his works.	New Delhi
10 March 2001	A symposium on Kalki, eminent Tamil writer.	Madurai
30-31 March 2001	Ensemble 2001: A Festival of North-Eastern poetry held in collaboration with Shillong Poetry Society, Centre for Cultural and Creative Studies (NEHU).	Shillong
28-29 February 2001	A regional Seminar on Development and Growth of Khasi and Garo languages.	Shillong
24 February 2001	Dr. K.R. Sandhya Readdy, Kanada poet read her poems and Sri Jajid Hamid, Urdu poet read his poems in Urdu with Kannada translation.	Bangalore
10-11 Febraury 2001	A two-day North-East Poets' meet was held in collaboration with Goa Konkani Akademi. Dr. Satyendra Srivastava, eminent Hindi poet and Director, Oriental Studies University of Cambridge inaugurated the meet.	Kolkata
30 Janurary 2001	Prof. Swapan Majumdar participates in a programme held in collaboration with Deptt. of English, Bangalore University.	Bangalore
23 January 2001	Sri Sunil Gangopadhyay, eminent Bengali poet participated.	Bangalore
21 December 2000	An evening with Prof. Amitava Kumar, poet and writer and Professor of English, Penn State University	New Delhi
15-17 December 2000	Meeting to discuss the great Tamil classic Thirukkural on the occasion of Thirukkural Festival	Madurai
15-16 December 2000	Meeting to discuss the literary contribution of Sri T. P. Meenakshisundaram, Fellow of the Akademi	Chennai
10-12 December 2000	Kavya Sandhya in collaboration with Kerala Konakani Akademi	Cochin
25-26 November 2000	A fiction writers, Meet with 16 young writers in collaboration with the Little Magazine of Malda District	Malda (W.B)
16-19 November 2000	Panel discussions on (1) Contemporary Kannada Translation (2) Contemporary Kannada Criticism (3) Contemporary Kannada Drama and (4) Contemporary Mystic Literature on 16,17,18 and 19 November respectively	Gadag (Karnataka)
15 November 2000	Poets' Meet with the participation of 13 Poets	Gadag (Karnataka)
11 November 2000	Srijan Utsav: Young Poets Meet in collaboration with Srijan Utsav Committee, Purulia	Purulia (W.B)
3 November 2000	A Symposium on 'Jyotiprasad Agarwal' in collaboration with Department of History, Pandu College	Guwahati
30 October 2000	A meeting with Dr. Kanchana Thamodaran, a short-story writer from USA; Sri D. Jayakanthan, Fellow of the Akademi Presided	Chennai
20 October 2000	Reading by eminent Indian English poet Sri Keki N. Daruwalla from his collection of poems Night River	New Delhi
17 October 2000	Poets' Meet with the participation of 12 Nepali poets in collaboration with Nepal Sahitya Parishad	Shillong
10 October 2000	A meeting with Sri Sandipan Chatterjee, Bengali short-story writer and Bankim Puraskar Awardee of the Government of West Bengal	Bangalore
10 October 2000	A Lecture by Prof. M. Ramachandra, to mark the death anniversary of Dr. K. Shivarama Karanth, well-known Kannada writer and a Fellow of the Akademi, followed by a ballet performance by 'Yaksharanga' well-known ballet group funded by late Dr. Shivarama Karanth, in collaboration with Govinda Pai Samshoudhanan Kendra Udupi
8 October 2000	A Poets' Meet with the participation of Smt. Vaidehi, Dr. N. Mugasale, Sri Jayarama Karanth and others in collaboration with Rashtrakavi Govinda Pai Samshoudhana Kendra	Udupi
29 September 2000	A Symposium on Na Pichamurthy	Chennai
28 September 2000	Reading by writers of the Indian Dispora, in collaboration with Centre for Linguistics and English, Jawaharlal Nehru University	New Delhi
19 September 2000	A programme to present feminine poetry in historical sequence since its beginning, in collaboration with Lokmanya Seva Sangh	Mumbai
17 September 2000	A meeting was conducted in collaboration with the Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers Association, Cuddalore	Neyveli
13 September 2000	A poetical tribute to renowned and Akademi Award-winning Marathi poet (late) Indira Sant, in collaboration with Jagatic Marathi Academy and Lokmanya Seva Sangh	Mumbai
22 August 2000	A meeting of Pudhumaipithan's Contribution to Tamil Literature, in collaboration with International Institute of Tamil Studies	Chennai
21 August 2000	A meeting on Fellow of the Sahitya Akademi, Dr. T. P. Meenakshisundaram's Research in collaboration with International Institute of Tamil Studies	Chennai
18 August 2000	A Symposium on Modern Indian Drama : Problems of Dialogue and release of the book Modern Indian Drama ed. By G. P. Deshpande	Kolkata
25 July 2000	A programme of North Eastern Poetry Today was held	Kolkata
15 July 2000	A Punjabi Women Poet's Meet in collaboration with Punjabi Akademi	New Delhi
18 June 2000	A literary meet in collaboration with Tamil Nadu Progressive writers Association	Triuvannamalai
13 June 2000	An evening of poetry with Surjit Ghosh, a Bengali poet and Editor Proma	New Delhi
5 June 2000	An evening of poetry with Sri Balchandran Chullikkad, Malayalam poet.	New Delhi
31 May 2000	Lecture on Telugu Literature by Dr. Sathyavani	Chennai
31 May 2000	Kavya Sandhya with Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi and Urdu poets	Mumbai
29 May 2000	Meeting on Jean Paul Sartre: The Man and Artist in collaboration with Agora, Alliance Francaise de Calcutta and Max Muller Bhavan, Goetha Institute	Kolkata
6 May 2000	Meeting on The Philosophic Foundation of Sankerdeva in collaboration with the Bengali Department of the Guwahati University	Guwahati
3 May 2000	Meeting on Oriya Poetry and release of Kannada translation of two Oriya Books. Sri Hariprasad Paricha Pattanayak read his poems	Bangalore
28 April 2000	Kavya Sandhya with Gujarati, Hindi and Marathi and Urdu poets	Mumbai
7 April 2000	Talk on Aesthetics of Bihu Songs with live demonstration by Tirtha Phukan, Dilip Phukan and others	Kolkata
4 April 2000	Lecture on problems and possibilities of translating Bihari Satsai Mr. Robert Snell from London	New Delhi
3 April 2000	Kavi Darbar in connection with the ter-centenary celebrations of Khalsa Panth	New Delhi
31 March 2000	Kavya Sandhya with Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi and Urdu poets	Mumbai
31 March 2000	Kavya Sandhya with the participation of writers from Gujarati, Hindi and Urdu	Mumbai
30-31 March 2000	Eastern Regional Poets' Meet in collaboration with Assam Sahitya Sabha in which poets from Assamese, Bengali, Maithili, Manipuri and Oriya participated. Sri Navkanta Barua inaugurated with Sri Chandrasekhara Rath as the Chief Guest	Guwahati
29 March 2000	Maithili Kavya Sandhya (Poets' Meet) with the participation of several poets	New Delhi
23 March 2000	Commemoration of the martyrdom of Shahid Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev in collaboration with Sanskruti Manch Jammu	Mumbai
25 February 2000	Kavya Sandhya with Gujarati, Mumbai Hindi and Urdu poets	Mumbai
5 February 2000	An Evening of poetry with Sri Desha Kulkarni and Smt. H. L. Pushpa, Kannada poets and discussion	Bangalore
28 January 2000	Kavya Sandhya with Gujarati, Hindi and Marathi poets	Mumbai
11 January 2000	Panel Discussion Globalisation: Challenges to Culture Prof. I. N. Choudhuri with local writers	Bangalore
6 January 2000	A meeting on Internet and creative literature was organised in which several writers participated	New Delhi
2 January 2000	Ms. Khaidam Londombala Devi, Manipuri poet and Sri Khelchandra Singh, Manipuri short story writer interacted with local Kannada writers	Bangalore
28 December 1999	Kavya Sandhya with Marathi Kannada, Hindi and Bhojpuri poets	Mumbai
24 December 1999	An evening of Poetry with Ms. Shanta Acharya (on Indian English poet from U.K.)
8 December 1999	Sri Prahlad Ram Surren, Mauritian Writer delivered a talk on Literary trends in Maritious andinteracted with Indian writers.	New Delhi
26 November 1999	Kavya Sandhya with Sri Dilip Ramshankar Rawal (Gujarati), Sri Hari Mridul (Hindi) and Irtaza Nishat (Urdu)
20 November 1999	Recent Trends in Manipuri Literature in collaboration with Jawaharlal Nehru Manipuri Dance Academy with Sri H. Guno Singh, Sri R.K. Jhalajit Singh, Prof. L. Damodar Singh and Sri E. Sonamani Singh as Chairman	Imphal
11 November 1999	Recent Trends in Assamese Literature with Prof. Kabin Phukan and Sri Pradip Acharya and Sri Navakanta Barua as Chairman	Calcutta
9 November 1999	Interaction with Prof. Christopher Levenson on Indian writing in English and the response to the same in Canadian literary circles and Universities	New Delhi
2 November 1999	Second Sant Singh Sekhon Memorial Lecture by Dr. K. Ayyappa Paniker in collaboration with Sekhon International Trust	New Delhi
29 October 1999	'Kavya Sandhya' was organised in which Jeevitram Satpal (Sindhi) Kusum Suresh Kunder (Kannada) and Nemani Prasad (Telugu) participated	Mumbai
26 October 1999	A round table dialogue with a delegation from Brandenberg, Germany which visited the Calcutta Regional office	Calcutta
18 October 1999	Lecture by Dr. Dennis Matringe, a French scholar, on Folk Culture and Punjabi poetry	New Delhi

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Date	Occasion	Venue
3 June 2004	An evening of story and poetry reading with Manipuri poets and writers was held in collaboration with Srijan.	Kolkata
17-19 May 2004	A three-day seminar on My Writing My Times was held with six eastern-regional languages.	Kolkata
7-8 February 2004	A two-day North Eastern and Western Regional Poetry Festival was held in collaboration with Mumbai Marathi Sahitya Sangh. Sri Gangadhar Gadgil gave the welcome address and introductory speech was given by Prof. K. Satchidanandan. Inaugural address by Sri Sunil Gangopadhyay and Usha Tambre gave the vote of thanks. Participants included Jaidev Shukla, Prabha Ganorkar, Krishin Rahi, Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay, Desmond L. Kharmawphlang, Hiten Anandpara, Nubu Tshering Lepcha, Dasu Vaidya, Lufta Hanum Salina Begum, Nutan Sakhardande, Laltluanliana Khiangte, Archana Puzari, Govardhan Sharma Ghayal, Shilpa Sontakke, Athar Aziz, Lanchenba Meitei, Robin S. Ngangom, N.D. Mahanor, Ramesh Veluskar, Indra Poonawala ‘Shabnam', Samir Tanti, Gopi Narayan Pradhan, Prakash Bhatambrekar, Nilba Khandekar, Birendrajit Nahaorem, Rasheed Meer, Sanjay Chakrabarty and Niranjan Ujgare.	Mumbai
23-25 January 2004	An Eastern and North-Eastern Young Poets meet was held.	Kolkata
4-5 December 2003	A two-day seminar on Women Writings in Modern Assamese Literature.	Guwahati
25-27 November 2003	A three-day Assamese-Bengali-Assamese translation workshop.	Dibrugarh
12 November 2003	Birth Centenary programme on Jyoti Prakash Agarwala, eminent Assamese writer.	Dibrugarh
23 October 2003	Kavi Sandhi with Nilbir Shastri, eminent Manipuri writer.	Imphal
26 September 2003	Kavi Sandhi with L. Somarendra Singh, eminent Manipuri writer.	Imphal
26-27 September 2003	A two-day Western and North Eastern Poets' Meet was held in collaboration with Pahariya and Bangiya Sahitya Parishad where Gujarati, Konkani, Marathi, Sindhi, Assamese, Khasi, Kokborok, Manipuri, Nepali and Indian English poets participated.	Meghalaya
24 July 2003	A Symposium on Myths in Khasi and Garo Literatures was held in collaboration with Centre for Creative Arts, North Eastern Hill University, Meghalaya.	Meghalaya
22-23 July 2003	A two-day Eastern Regional Playwrights Meet was held in which thirteen playwrights covering six languages participated.	Guwahati
25 January 2003	An All India Poets' Meet held in collaboration with Siddharth Kala Peetham.	Vijayawada
23 - 24 January 2003	Uttar-Purbanchaliya Sahityotsav was held in collaboration with Sish, a tri-monthly literary magazine.	Bongaun (West Bengal)
23 January 2003	Book release function on K.H. Chaube Singh.	Imphal
15 January 2003	A Manipuri Poets' Meet was held in collaboration with the Department of Art and Culture, Government of Manipur, during Manipur Festival in Kolkata. The programme was inaugurated by Sri M. Nara Singh, Hon'ble Minister, Seri., Art and Culture and presided by M. K. Binodini Devi. Sri Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay gave away the welcome speech.	Kolkata
26 - 27 December 2002	An All India Women Poets' Meet.	Guwahati
13 -14 December 2002	An All India Women Fiction Writer's Meet.	Guwahati
4 December 2002	A Symposium on Oral Literature in the North-East.	Kolkata

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