Kalinga Literary Festival

Kalinga Literary Festival
Genre	Literary festival
Dates	19 to 21 July 2019
Location(s)	Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Years active	2013 – present
Website	http://Kalingaliteraryfest.com

Kalinga Literary Festival or Kalinga Literature Festival (Odia: କଳିଙ୍ଗ ସାହିତ୍ୟ ମହୋତ୍ସବ) is an annual literary festival held in Bhubaneswar of Odisha in India. It is normally held in May or June.^[1][2] The festival was founded and directed by Rashmi Ranjan Parida,^[3] an award-winning journalist.^[4][5][6] The Festival is organised by Odisha Diary Foundation ^[7] and Odisha Media Info Service Pvt Ltd ^[8] .

History

Kalinga Literary Festival was launched in 2014 to celebrate the classical language status of Odia language.^[9]

Renowned people such as Jaggi Vasudev, Sitakant Mahapatra, Ramakanta Rath , Jayanta Mahapatra, Dinanath Pathy, Subramanian Swamy, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Piyush Mishra, Haraprasad Das, Purushottam Agrawal, Mark Tully, Kedarnath Singh, Bhalchandra Nemade, H.S. Shivaprakash, Ravish Kumar, Shazi Zaman, Sagar Sarhadi, Tarun Vijay, Suhasini Haidar, Ashok Chakradhar, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Kancha Ilaiah, Haldhar Nag, Ashok Vajpeyi , Prabhu Chawla, Arif Mohammad Khan, Debi Prasanna Pattanayak, Pratibha Ray, Sameer, Seema Biswas, Paramita Satpathy, Rahul Pandita, Ranjana Kumari, Roopa Ganguly, Sudarsan Pattnaik, Sabyasachi Mohapatra, Baishnab Charan Parida, Mrinal Chatterjee, Vinod Dua, Harish Bhimani, Mridula Garg, Bibhuti Patnaik, Sushma Seth, P. Lalita Kumari, Gourahari Das, Anu Choudhury, Urmilesh Singh, Mohapatra Nilamani Sahoo, Sharat Katariya, Anna M.M. Vetticad, Ravish Kumar, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Yash A Patnaik and many other celebrity writers, poets, journalists, artists and performers have been panelists at the Kalinga Literary Festival.

Central themes and topics

First Kalinga Literary Festival 2014:

• Celebrating the Language and Literature

Second Kalinga Literary Festival 2015:

• Literature as Reflection^[10]

The key sessions^[11] focused on a wide range of topics including Romanticism and contemporary literature, Feminism in contemporary Literature, Parallel Cinema and contemporary Literature, Dalit & Tribal Literature, Media, Medium, Message & Literature, Bhasa Sahitya Vs English Literature and many other inter-related issues.^[12]

Third Kalinga Literary Festival 2016:

• Literature and Democracy

Inaugural of Kalinga Literary Festival 2016. Dr. Subramanian Swamy, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Haraprasad Das, Minister Devi Prasad Mishra, KLF Director Rashmi Ranjan Parida.

The key sessions focused on topics like dialogue, development and democratic spirit in literature, a literary journey of Kalinga, governance in Odia language, youth, women, media, sports, folk and regional literature and the like.^[13]

Fourth Kalinga Literary Festival 2017

• Central Theme: Literature for Peace and Harmony
• The Fourth Kalinga Literary Festival was held on 10–12 June 2017, Outlook^[14]
• Central Theme: Literature for Peace and Harmony, The Telegraph^[15]
• 4th Kalinga Literary Fest begins, Times of India^[16]
• Three Day Kalinga Literary Festival Ends, The Pioneer^[17]

Mystic Kalinga - An international festival of poetry and performances

• Mystic Kalinga^[18] - An international festival of poets, performance held on 22, 23 December at Bhubaneswar

Fifth Kalinga Literary Festival 2018

• Central Theme: Towards a Just Society: Equality, Equity and Humanity in Literature
• Kalinga litfest to be themed on just society^[19]

3rd Mystic Kalinga January 5,6 2019, Mayfair Convention, Bhubaneswar

Awardees

Kalinga Literary Award 2014

• Dr.Debi Prasanna Pattanayak^[20][21]

Kalinga Literary Award 2015

• Banaja Devi
• Durga Prasad Panda

Kalinga Literary Award 2016

• Yashodhara Mishra,
• Tapan Mahapatra

Kalinga Literary Award 2017

• Haraprasad Das^[22]

Kalinga International Literary Award 2017

• Anand Neelakantan^[23]

Kalinga Karubaki Literary Award 2017

• Paramita Satpathy^[24]

Mystic Kalinga Literary Award 2018:

• Arundhathi Subramaniam^[25]
• Nabaneeta Dev Sen ^[26]
• Soubhagya Mishra ^[27]

Kalinga Literary Award 2018

• Kalinga International Literary Awards 2018 Amish Tripathi, Nirupama Rao and Padmaj Paul^[28][29]

Outreach festivals

• Kalinga Literary Festival in Koraput:

The festival held during 7–8 April 2018^[30][31]

• Kalinga Literary Festival in Kandhamal (Kandhamal Literary Festival):

Media Coverage of Kandhamal Literary Festival which was held on 26 November 2017 at Phulbani, Odisha^{[32][33][34][35]}

References