"Translations -Transnations" Samanvay: IHC Indian Languages' Festival 2014 at Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 6th to 9th November 2014

Time : 
6th November : 6:00 pm onwards Add to Calendar 06-11-2014 18:00:00 06-11-2014 21:00:00 68 Samanvay: Ihc Indian Languages' Festival 2014 Event Page : http://goo.gl/20mmkP Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY
7th & 9th November : 2:00 pm onwards Add to Calendar 07-11-2014 14:00:00 09-11-2014 18:00:00 68 Samanvay: Ihc Indian Languages' Festival 2014 Event Page : http://goo.gl/20mmkP Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Venue : The Amphitheatre, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Parking : Gate No. 1, 2 & 3 (Cars), Gate No. 2 (Bikes & Bicycles)
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Stations :
'Jor Bagh(Yellow Line)Exit Gate-1' - Walk Direction
'Khan Market(Violet Line)'
Area : Lodhi Road Area Events

Event Description : "Translations -Transnations" Samanvay: Ihc Indian Languages' Festival 2014.

The fourth edition of India Habitat Centre (IHC) Indian Languages Festival ‘Samanvay’ is all set to again invigorate and entertain its audiences in unarguably the most cosmopolitan city of modern India – New Delhi. Based on its theme “Translations Transnations” Samanvay 
2014 will focus on Indian languages which have a transnational presence like Bangla, Bhojpuri, Chhattisgarhi, English, Hindi, Konkani, Malayalam, Punjabi and Sanskrit even while featuring 20 Indian Languages and dialects from across India and South Asia. For the first time, the festival will also host writers from other south Asian countries. 
Bigger than ever before, this year Samanvay 2014 will see more than 90 eminent speakers and performers sharing their views with an ever growing audience spread across 21 sessions, 4 evening performances and workshops where the focus will be on Indian languages which have a transnational presence. This year Altaf Tyrewala, Anvar Ali, Arunava Sinha, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Asad Zaidi, Badri Narayan, CS Lakshmi, Darain Shahidi, Fakrul Alam, Gillian Wright, Harrish Iyer, Jerry Pinto, Koushiki Dasgupta, K. Satchidanandan, Melvyn Rodrigues, Madan Gopal Singh, Mrityunjay, Namvar Singh, Rudranarayan Panigrahi, Ram Gopal Bajaj, Saurabh Shukla, Swanand Kirkire, Syed Samsul Haq, Surabhi Sharma and Vinay Pathak apart from many more personalities will be representing an Indian language which has ceased to be confined to their boundaries. The idea is to bring together authors and translators across languages and national borders to discuss how languages and selves travel and get translated into each other.

Samanvay 2014 will be full of conversations around Indian literature, media, and translations, along with poetry performances and cultural evenings. Major highlight of this year’s festival will be tribute to UR Ananthamurthy, Bipan Chandra, Rajendra Yadav, Nabarun Bhattacharya and Khushwant Singh. Also, this year Samanvay Bhasha Samman 2014 will be conferred upon leading Hindi poet Ashok Vajpeyi for his “lifetime contribution to Hindi and Indian literature”. Accepting the award Mr. Vajpeyi said, “Literature celebrates life all the time. Sometimes life should also celebrate literature”. The difficult job to find an individual rested on this year’s Jury, chaired by K. 
Satchidanandan, and comprised of litterateurs Alok Rai, Udaya Narayana Singh, Sitanshu Yashaschandra and Raj Liberhan. 
Beyond the language specific sessions, Samanvay endeavors to cover some of the issues that have shaped our intellectual and social life in recent times: this year it will witness sessions on The Information War; A Tryst with Modernity; Words without Borders; Imagining Pardes; Kiska Sheher, Kiski Zubaan; Displacement, Pathos, Songs; One Language, Two Countries; etc are a very integral part of the Festival.

Website : www.ilfsamanvay.org

Related Events : Talks