Pondy Lit Fest organiser disagrees with Abhijit Iyer-Mitra’s observation that India’s Right needs a ‘binding glue’ to take on narratives set by the Left.
A two day literature festival that highlights burning national issues like abrogation of Article 370.
Republic Pondy Lit Fest: Kiran Bedi inaugurated the fest and spoke about how she was amazed by the presence of inscriptions inscribed on the walls of temples
By November or December we hope to get a positive result, says Assam Minister
Progress has been made in evolving consensus among people of Assam and other northeastern States on amendment to the Citizenship Act, Assam Finance and Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Sunday.
The 2nd edition of Pondy Lit Fest, attended by leading Right-wing figures like Swapan Dasgupta, Kanchan Gupta and Tavleen Singh, saw huge on-stage fights.
Introductory remarks by one of the two curators of the Pondy Lit Fest 2019.
Bedi inaugurates event; this year’s theme is ‘Bharat Shakti’
The second edition of ‘Pondy Lit Fest 2019’ themed ‘Bharat Shakti’ will be held on September 27–29 at Shenbaga convention centre in the tourist town.
“Pondy Lit Fest” அமைப்பு சார்பில் புதுச்சேரியில் இலக்கிய திருவிழா, கடந்த ஆண்டு முதல் நடந்து வருகிறது. கடந்த ஆண்டு ஆகஸ்டு 17-ஆம் தேதி இந்த விழா தொடங்கி நடந்தது.
The vision of the literature festival is to create a platform for the foremost thinkers to come together and find ways for India to achieve its full potential.
After a hugely successful first edition, the Pondy Lit Fest is back for its second. The dates have been announced and the three-day Lit Fest will commence on the 27th of September.
The second edition of the Pondy Lit Fest will take place from the 27th to the 29th of September this year, at the Shenbaga Convention Centre in Pondicherry. The entry will be free of cost, but the number of seats is limited.
The second edition of the Pondy Lit Fest will take place on the 27th, 28th and 29th of September at the Shenbaga Convention Centre in Pondicherry. The entry is entirely free. However, the number of seats is limited...
புதுவையில் வருகின்ற செப்டம்பர் 27ந் தேதி நடைபெறும் The Pondy Lit Fest என்ற எழுத்தாளர்கள் மாநாட்டை மத்திய அமைச்சர் ஸ்மிருதிராணி பங்கேற்று தொடங்கி வைக்கிறார். தொடர்ந்து இரண்டாவது ஆண்டாக இவ்விழா நடைபெற உள்ளது....
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Modi’s elevation to the post of India’s prime minister in 2014 is a watershed moment for India. Only he has understood the idea of Bharat Shakti and is therefore the best instrument to confirm and fulfill Aurobindo’s augury...
The recent, needless controversy surrounding an innocuous tweet of Vistara airlines about their passenger Major General (Retired) G.D. Bakshi shows that nuances have long died and everyone is guilty of the Bush-ism – ‘Either you are with us, or you are against us!’....
Event management company says the linguo-cultural body gave in to fringe elements to change venue of PondyLitFest...
A Chinese proverb says that talking to a wise person is equal to reading hundreds of books; but how if we get two wise people to converse? The Pondy Lit Fest 2018 witnessed this where Rajroopa Bhattacharjee & Ajit Datta grabbed opportunity to natter with renowned actress Pallavi Joshi and eminent filmmaker & author of Best seller title #UrbanNaxlas Vivek Agnihotri....
The power struggle within the governing executive of the Alliance Francaise Pondicherry (AFP), the oldest in Asia and among the earliest chapters in the world, has resurfaced with a controversial change of guard...
Last week, the Pondicherry Literary Festival devoted a session to the question “Can India become an economic powerhouse?” My thoughts went back 27 years and recalled the famous last sentence from finance minister Manmohan Singh’s famous budget speech of July 1991...
Many binaries like those of Left and Right or national and anti-national have been imposed on people of Bharat who have been transcending such pigeonholes since the advent of civilization
I’ve always been wary of ‘lit fests’, ending up more often than not at book fairs instead. In my defense, the illustrious “Jaipur Lit Fest” was my benchmark for forming an opinion about such events. Glossy, elite, crowded, and towing the same soul-destroying mind-numbing left leaning binary world view...
The Pondy Lit Fest, which sparked off minor debates, was held in Pondicherry, on the outskirts of which is Auroville, a settlement dedicated to his ideas
In recent years we have heard much about Aurobindo Ghose’s radical nationalism: his arrest in the Alipore bomb case under charges of “waging war against the Government” during British rule, his invocation of India as his mother, a divinity to be revered and set free from chains, and his scathing editorials in the newspaper Bande Mataram. Inspired by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and the Vedas, he urged people to shake off their colonial stupor, recover their spiritual power and demand complete freedom...
Organising a festival of letters, arts and ideas, which I am doing for the first time as the co-curator of ‘Bharat Shakti: The Pondy Lit Fest’ (PLF), August 17-19, 2018, is such an onerous responsibility not to mention a huge headache. I have just learnt, as I send this column, that our venue partner the Alliance Française de Pondichéry (AF) has backed off from being our venue partner...
Bharat Shakti: The Pondy Lit Fest shined bright as a platform for promotion of free speech.
Florida based physician, philosopher and poet Pariksith Singh M.D. was one of the notable speakers present at the inaugural session for the First Pondy Lit Fest along with Bibek Debroy, Vivek Agnihotri and other stalwarts.
Bemoaning tendency to ignore the past, he says history taught today has a ‘jaundiced view’
Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister Bibek Debroy on Saturday stressed the need to rediscover the rich civilisational history of the country...
Objects to right-wing elements
The All India Peace and Solidarity Organisation has condemned the holding of Pondy Lit Fest 2018, scheduled from August 18 ...
A section of the Left is not only highly intolerant of differing opinions but does not hesitate to bully or threaten its opponents into silence or submission..
The first Pondicherry Literature Festival was launched on 17th of August evening in a somber mood due to the on-going national mourning for the demise of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The central theme of the festival is “Bharat Shakti”...
The inaugural ceremony of 'Bharat Shakti: The Pondy Lit Fest', planned for Friday at Gandhi Thidal, which was slated to be launched by Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani, has been cancelled as a mark of respect to the departed former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. In a statement, Partha Hariharan, Director, Indologue Events and Ideas Pvt Ltd, said all other programmes on Saturday and Sunday will be held as per schedule...
A host of forums, including All India Peace and Solidarity Organization (AIPSO) and Tamil Nadu and Puducherry Progressive Writers’ Association and left parties, have registered their objection to the conduct of Pondy Lit Festival, 2018, which they said was an attempt to promote “right-wing ideologies”...
The literature festival titled “Bharat Shakti” has been organised to discuss and debate the direction India should take at this important juncture in its history
The literature festival, scheduled to begin in Puducherry on August 17, has been accused of promoting a right-wing agenda.
Various literary associations under the banner of Progressive Writers Association on Thursday urged the government to disassociate itself from the Pondy Lit Fest 2018.
Slated to be Puducherry’s first ever literature fest, “Bharat Shakti: Pondy Lit Fest 2018”,has already stirred the hornet’s nest ahead of its first season for inviting guests who promote right-wing ideology.
An alliance of Left parties, the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) and the Dravida Kazhagam (DK) will stage a protest near the Alliance Francaise on August 17, the opening day of the Pondy Lit Fest (PLF) 2018, demanding the cancellation of the festival, as it allegedly provides a forum for the promotion of right-wing ideology...
The other day I was at Khan Market in Delhi where one is bound to spot a celebrity journalist or a celebrity lawyer at any given time. While I couldn’t spot anyone, perhaps they were chilling in a boutique brewery somewhere in New Friends Colony, I spotted my Leftist friend who has blocked me on Facebook after I pointed out in her status update that despite being a communist, it is kind of hypocritic she was still working in a private bank, thereby contributing to ‘crony capitalism’ and chose to commute in her Hyundai Creta instead of taking the metro. It is amusing how people who ‘like to speak the truth’ don’t really like to hear it. My conversation with this friend, let us call her JC, went something like this:
Questioning the decision of its Puducherry based affiliate to host the literary event, the Paris-based foundation says the litfest bears no "relation with the objectives of this institution."
An alliance of Left parties, the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) and the Dravida Kazhagam (DK) will stage a protest near the Alliance Francaise on August 17, the opening day of the Pondy Lit Fest (PLF) 2018, demanding the cancellation of the festival, as it allegedly provides a forum for the promotion of right wing ideology...
Alliance Francaise on Wednesday issued a press release making it abundantly clear that Alliance Francaise de Pondicherry had violated the parent body’s charter in associating its name with the right-wing organisers of the upcoming Pondy Lit Fest...
Alliance of left parties including the Communist Party of India (CPI), Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) and Communist Party of India (Marxist) ( CPI-M ), along with Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) and the Dravida Kazhagam (DK) have demanded the cancellation of the Pondy Lit Fest because it promotes the right wing ideology, The Hindu has reported.
AM Salim, the state secretary of the CPI who went to the extent of holding a press conference saying that his party, along with four others, will write to the French Consulate in Puducherry as well as to the French Embassy in New Delhi, objecting to the Pondy Lit Fest
In a clear clamp down on freedom of speech and expression, the leftist-liberal cabal has made a desperate attempt to stifle dissent and has threatened to disrupt the opening day of the Pondy Lit Fest (PLF) 2018.
Amidst the plethora of Literature festivals that have sprouted in last few years, The Pondy Lit Fest (PLF) 2018 aspires to be “different, if not unique, in the circuit of arts and ideas festivals in India and abroad”. The festival will be held in picturesque Puducherry from August 17th to August 19th 2018.
The CEO of one of the leading healthcare practices in USA, Access Health Care Physicians and author, Dr. Pariksith Singh will be launching 3 books on Sunday, August 19th, 2018 at the first Pondicherry Literature Fest.
The first edition of the Pondy Lit Fest (PLF) 2018 has sparked a row with critics questioning the motive behind organising an event with no prominent names from the world of literature.
The first edition of The Pondy Lit Fest (PLF) 2018 will be held between August 17 and 19 here.
A literature festival will take place this month in the quaint little town of Puducherry. This has sent one of the biggest newspapers of France off its rocker, namely Le Monde.
The three-day fest scheduled for August 17 should be viewed in the context of the right-wing's historical attempts to disturb social harmony of Pondicherry.
Presque tous les participants à l’événement sont de fervents nationalistes hindous.
Puducherry: Come August, Puducherry will host its first ever literature and ideas festival. Titled Bharat Shakti: the Pondicherry Festival or Arts and Ideas, scheduled for August 17-19, will feature a host of well-known names.
The upcoming Pondy Litfest in Pondicherry, is attracting much comment, not only for its choice of speakers (Smriti Irani, Swapan Dasgupta and Kiran Bedi for starters), but its unfortunate choice of name...
Literature lovers, Puducherry invites you to attend the upcoming Pondy Lit Fest 2018 to take place from August 17 to 19. Dubbed as Bharat Shakti, it is the first of its kind in region. The festival will throw light on diverse theme of literature, cultural, social, artistic and political importance...
All over the world, liberalism seems to be in tatters. What is more, the crisis of global liberalism seems mostly of its own making. What has caused this drastic decline, this twilight of liberalism? I often ask such questions being a liberal myself.
Puducherry Literary Festival 2018: Along with Smriti Z Irani, Kiran Bedi, and V Narayanasamy, as the chief guests, a majority of speakers and attendees at Bharat Shakti are supporters of the saffron ideology.
Responding to the criticisms that the literary fest completely failed to give platform for different voices.
'Bharat Shakti; the Pondy lit fest 2018' "aspires to be different if not unique, in the circuit of arts and ideas festivals in India and abroad".