PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE/ Dehradun
The two-day ‘The Literary Table’ Literature and Arts Festival started on Monday with the director, Reserve Bank of India, Jharkhand, Prem Ranjan Animesh having inaugurated it. Addressing the gathering, the director of The Literary Table Literature and Art Festival, Aloka Das Gupta Niyogi said that this festival is an opportunity to see and hear all the renowned authors and also to interact with them.
The highlight of the event was the Young Author Award presented to several schoolchildren, including Abhiraj Singhvi of Doon School, Vihaan Ahlawat of Oasis School, and the students from Delhi Public School, Dehradun, including Labhansh Shirin, Havish, Krishnag, and Ryan Joshi for the book ‘Mysterious Adventure’ they have written. At the same time, Aarabh Shukla, Atharva Vishwakarma, Navyansh Sharma and Aayansh Aatreya were also honoured with a certificate and a memento for the book ‘Who Was He’ written by the children of the second group of Delhi Public School.
In a session titled ‘Head in Stone and Water: Architectural Wonders of Bombay,’ Bachi Karkaria and Devdutt Patnaik participated. It was followed by another session titled ‘Files Unsealed: The Bose Enigma Declassified,’ in which Chandrachur Ghosh, Anuj Dhar, moderator Pooja Khanna and Aloka Das Gupta Niyogi discussed the mysteries surrounding Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
At the festival’s conclusion, Professor Bhaskar Veera of the University of Cambridge delivered a video conference address on ‘Our Last Chance: The Fight for Mother Earth’ during the final session.
