National Seminar On "Celebrating Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav in Kashi: On Contemporary Indian Literature"

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National Seminar On "Celebrating Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav in Kashi: On Contemporary Indian Literature"

Date: 21 - 22 July 2023

Organized by the Department of English and Other Foreign Languages

Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi

Sub-themes:

A class of contemporary Indian writers who have invigorated a love of literature in their peculiar inimitable way. They’ve specified speech to countless subjects, from light to heavy. The writers have captured the imagination and piqued the concentration of a peer group of young minds and really justified acknowledgement. Literature is not confined only to Indian English literature, but has a wide spectrum, comprising the literature represented in Hindi & other regional languages. Therefore, we invite research papers from every aspect of the related theme and of any terrain, however, some of the prominently focused areas as

Sub-themes are mentioned below:

Indian Ethos and Sensibility

Cultural Values in Indian Literature

Spiritual Heritage: Saint Writers

History of Writers: Writers of History

Indian Nationalism

Gender in Literature

Kashi in Indian Literature

India in Indian Literature

Kashi: Quintessential Hindu City

About Varanasi

Varanasi also known as Kashi, is a city on the Ganges in Northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death and mourning in the Hindu World. Varanasi is one of the world’s oldest continually inhabited cities.

About National Seminar

Contemporary Literature is an interface between the past and the future, with the ancestors and successors, an endurance occupied by premonitions and cautions of the predicted tempest on the skyline. Continuity and the community are tantamount for the writer. The persistent apprehension of the writer is with imitating a terminology that is clever enough to locate excruciating life in an unfriendly environment. Literature touches different people in different ways and can effortlessly ensure through written words what many conversations fail at – it can reconcile, stimulate, infuriate, and even spark joy in the gloomiest of galaxies inside you. Writers have a superior kind of supremacy that consents them to speak to each and every individual on an intimate level and keep you bent, even if you have little-to-no interest in the issue.

Conflicting to numerous influences, the tact and the art of Literature are not lost on millennials. It has progressed in form, technique and language, perhaps, and has modified the situation to contemporary times as countless new writers step into the light, pens in the finger. We enjoy the work of Amitav Ghosh, Manju Kapur, Chitra Banerjee, Arundhati Roy, Arvind Adiga, Intizaar Hussain, and Vikas Sharma when contemplated.

Seminar Objective

The 75th anniversary of the Nation's Independence gives us a chance to reconsider the question of the Writer’s sociocultural & literary status. Therefore, the proposed seminar aims to reveal and reassess the contribution and celebrate the achievements of Writers and literary artists, who have helped shape the nation's literary and cultural heritage. Hence, through this seminar, we will try to consider & assimilate all the milestones achieved by Writers and literary artists in the field of literature and creative arts and celebrate their forceful presence as writers.