Guwahati, 06 November (HS): The fourth edition of the Pragjyotishpur Literature Festival will be organised from November 13 to 15 at the Phanidhar Datta Auditorium on the Gauhati University campus. The three-day event is being organised by the Sankardev Education and Research Trust.

Like previous editions, the festival will feature keynote addresses, discussion sessions, workshops, a book fair, a multilingual poets' meet and several other literary activities.

According to festival secretary Bikram Kalita, Gauhati University Vice-Chancellor Professor Nani Gopal Mahanta will deliver the keynote address on the central theme on the opening day.

The inaugural session will be attended by noted litterateur and retired Dibrugarh University professor Karabi Deka Hazarika as the chief guest. Acharya of Pragjyotishpur University and retired Lieutenant General Rana Pratap Kalita will deliver the welcome address.

Besides the inaugural and valedictory sessions, six discussion sessions will be organised on various subjects, including society, history, environment, literature and cinema. Writers, researchers and litterateurs from different parts of Assam will participate in these sessions.

As part of the festival, a drawing competition and a recitation workshop will be organised for students on November 15. Renowned Assamese reciter Abani Bora will conduct the workshop as the resource person.

The organising committee has also arranged a poetry programme titled 'Kavya Kaveri' on the evenings of November 13 and 14, providing emerging poets an opportunity to recite their original compositions.

The valedictory session will be attended by Nagaland Higher Education Minister Temjen Imna Along, noted playwright Professor Pona Mahanta and India Today NE Editor and India Today magazine's Managing Editor Kaushik Deka.

The organisers further announced that the Pragjyotishpur Sahitya Award and the Pragjyotishpur Sahitya Award (Youth) will be presented to two distinguished litterateurs during the concluding ceremony.------------

Hindusthan Samachar / Sriprakash