A two-day North-East Literary Festival 2022 (NELF) organised by the state department of information and public relations in collaboration with the Arunachal Pradesh Literary Society (APLS) got underway here at the Dorjee Khandu Convention Centre on Monday.
The NE literary festival with the theme “Building bridges through literature” aimed at encouraging budding poets and writers of the state to hone their skills in creative writing, besides giving them an opportunity and platform wherein they can express themselves in terms of literature and facilitate them to come face to face with the leading poets and writers enabling them to improve their skill in creative writings.
Many prominent authors and poets from outside the state including Anuradha Sarma Pujari, Sahitya Academy Awardee (Assam) Upen Rabha Hakacham (Assam), Munish Singh (Manipur) and Bipul Regon (Assam), besides a host of local writers, are participating in the event.
The Sahitya Academy Awardee from Assam and author of a good number of books spoke on the strong bonding of the two states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh through literature and music.
The festival was successfully organized for two successive years in 2018 and 2019 as Arunachal Art & Literary festival wherein authors, writers and poets from across the country and world participated, but the event could not be organised during the last two years due to covid 19 pandemic.
The festival focused more on encouraging the local youths on creative writing, besides giving a platform to budding writers and poets to showcase their talents.