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JAMMU: To provide platform to the young budding writers, Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages (JKAACL) today organised Multilingual Kahani Goshthi at Government College for Women, Gandhi Nagar, here.
Prof. Lalit Magotra, a prominent short-story writer and Convenor (Dogri), Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi presided, Prof. Rita Jitendra, Former Secretary, JKAACL, senior writer, artist and social activist was the Chief Guest while Prof. Kiran Bakshi, Principal, Govt. College for Women, Gandhi Nagar, Jammu was the Guest of Honour. Dr. Arvinder Singh Amn, Additional Secretary, JKAACL was also in the presidium. While delivering his presidential address, Prof. Lalit Magotra complimented all the participating young writers of the college and said that after going through the short-stories presented in this Kahani Goshthi, clearly indicates that the youth of the present tome is capable of thinking intellectually and feeling the merits and de-merits of the society. Today’s short-stories reflected the same feelings and successfully projected the current social issues, he said adding that these budding writers have the potential of rich language and techniques of creative writing.
Prof. Rita Jitendra, in her address, complimented the budding short-story writers and said that it’s a matter of pleasure and proud that the young women writers came up with their creative writings in such a way that they have the capacity to lead the society and also pin-point the fundamental sights of women folk living in our diverse society. Prof. Kiran Bakshi thanked Academy for organising such literary activity particularly for the budding student writers of the college and said that such gestures will be fruitful in creating the second line of the respective area. She hoped such more activities in future too.
Earlier, in his welcome address, Dr. Amn said that since last few years, academy, as a policy, arranged number of activities for the young budding writers, artists to provide them a platform to explore their talent with a mission to catch them young. He further said that after a successful round of poetic symposiums, Mushairas specifically for young poets, now this series of Kahani Goshtis for young budding writers encouraged the academy to organise such more activities in future too.
He also appreciated the participation and cooperation of budding student writers of the said college and expressed his gratitude for collaborating this event. The proceedings of the programme were conducted by Dr. Rattan Basotra, Asstt. Editor, Dictionary and vote of thanks was presented by Ashok Gupta, Editor Dogri, J and K Cultural Academy.
Those who presented their short-stories were Farhana Farooq Urdu (Rishtey), Latika Sharma Hindi (Pahchan), Rekha Bhau Dogri (Meena), Navleen Kaur Punjabi (Siyani Soch) and Radhika Bali English (Beyond the Boundary).
Among others present were Dr. Baljit Raina, Surinder Goel, Hardeep Singh Deep, Sunil Sharma, Balwinder Singh, Kumar A Bharti, teacher faculty of Language Departments and students.
