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Navrachana
University, in lieu of the ongoing National Library Week organized an “Idea
Fest” named-Vichar Vimarsh on 14th November in Navrachana University. It served
as a platform for understudies to interact with eminent writes, thinkers, story
tellers and others.
The event
was organized to culminate new ideas and inspire students and inculcate new
ideas and knowledge. The speakers graced the occasion included Padma Shree
Sitanshu Yashaschandra- Famous Poet, Dramatist and Literary Theorist Amrut
Deshmukh- “The Booklet Guy”, Neha Bahuguna- Performer, Poet and Oral
storyteller; Seema Khanwalkar – Trained Semiotician, Sachin Ketkar-Bilingual
Poet, Translator and Vishal Bhadani- Gujarati Creative Translator.
The event
started with an insightful book talk which was followed by the Keynote Address
delivered by Padmashree Sitanshu Yashaschandra. The second event of the day was
by Seema Khanwalkar, on the topic “Visual Culture and Art” where she shared her
personal experiences and insights on the topic which was interesting to listen
to. She spoke with anecdotes from her life in the cooperate world which the
attendees related to.
The fest
was spread throughout the day into different sessions hosted in the
Auditorium. Students, Scholars and Faculty members from various
departments attended the event with enthusiasm. Amrut Deshmukh aka “The Booklet
Guy”, speaking next at Vichar Vimarsh, spoke about his mission to cultivate the
habit of reading amongst the youth of India which is popularized as “Make India
Read”. His talk was very engaging and left inspired to try their hand at
reading. The next session was of Sachin Ketkar on discussing the creative
processes of reading.
A book
talk was conducted by the students of Navrachana University which was chaired
by Amrut Deshmukh. The books discussed were The Animal Farm, The thousand
Splendid Suns and others. The chair shared his opinion about the talks after
the talks, which was encouraging for the students.
The
evening session began with Neha Bahuguna’s stellar stories which amazed the
audience. She spoke about storytelling and scripting where she shared various
insights from her life which inspires her and are notable. She stressed
on the habit of writing and saving the literary culture.
Vishal
Bhadani, the last speaker of the day spoke about Creative Translations; the
interesting aspects of the same and how it has a great scope as a career. He
ended the session by narrating one of his translated work.
Overall
the event VicharVimarsh was a huge success, in terms of exchange of dialogues,
discussions, engagement and enrichment of the audience. It unlocked many
thoughts for the listeners and gave different perspectives towards literature.
The motive of the event was achieved and ended leaving everyone contented.