Chandigarh Literati
Chandigarh Literati or Chandigarh Literature Festival is a literary festival held in Chandigarh, India. It is organised by the Chandigarh Literary Society with the support of the Chandigarh Administration and Haryana Tourism.
History
According to the chairperson of Sumita Misra, IAS, the Chandigarh Literati was originally conceived in an attempt to promote the literary arts in the city, provide a platform for talented regional writers and thinkers and make available world-class writers to the public. The festival promotes poetry, haiku, vernacular writers as well as fiction and non-fiction writers in English and regional languages like Punjabi, Hindi, etc. "Chandigarh Lit Fest shall showcase the very best in contemporary writing from established and emerging writers, and inspire children as well as all those engaged in creative reading and writing pursuits."Festival timeline
2013
The 2013 festival was graced by more than thirty authors from different parts of the country, including bestselling authors and celebrities like Bhaskar Ghose, Gul Panag, Ashwin Sanghi, Jerry Pinto, Meghna Pant, V. Sudarshan, Tishaa Khosla, etc. The two-day festival was organised at the Lake View Club on 23-24 November. There were many sessions which included book readings, author discussions and book launches. The festival attracted visitors from all across the country.Participating Authors
The following authors participated in the 2013 Chandigarh Literati.- Kishwar Desai
- Bhaskar Ghose
- Madhu Kishwar
- Gul Panag
- Imtiaz Ali
- Kishalay Bhattacharjee
- Jaideep Bhoosreddy
- Upamanyu Chatterjee
- Angelee Deodhar
- Krishna Shastri Devulapalli
- Pam Handa
- Irshad Kamil
- Manju Kapur
- Tishaa Khosla
- Gen. V.P. Malik
- Govind Mishra
- Rahul Pandita
- Pushpesh Pant
- Meghna Pant
- Jerry Pinto
- Nandita C. Puri
- Manjula Rana
- Ashwin Sanghi
- Navtej Singh Sarna
- Manish Shukla
- Jai Arjun Singh
- Mohyna Srinivasan
- Bubbu Tir
- Ashok Vajpeyi
- Ram Varma
- Chandra Shekhar Verma
- Gyan Prakash Vivek