Tata Steel Bhubaneswar Literary Meet 2017 unfolds on a vibrant note

Bhubaneswar, Odisha: The second edition of Tata Steel Bhubaneswar Literary Meet 2017 was inaugurated here on Friday.

The meet aims to further the literary pursuit of Odisha, a state that is globally renowned for its cultural heritage. The idea is to bring on board varied areas of interest such as theater, dance, music, cinema, journalism, and politics, all of which directly or indirectly influences literature of a given period.

While inaugurating the meet, Nayantara Sehgal said: “Writers and their writings come in all shapes and sizes. While some can spin one novel a year, others take years of inspiration to pen a line. We have a great responsibility as writers to shoulder this country’s future as a secular republic.”

Speaking at the inauguration, Anand Sen, said: “Tata Steel’s engagement with the state of Odisha spans more than a century. Besides, all our social engagements here, it is also our endeavor to partner literary pursuits such as this. We hope that this event will grow in stature and become a must- attend for the literature enthusiasts”.

Tata Steel Bhubaneswar Literary Meet will present two days of intellectual discussions, debates, sessions on the rich literary world of Odisha and India. On its first day, the conversation revolved around defining a classic, in a realm of literature that informs, enlightens and endures while being periodically questioned, critiqued and survive multiple trials.

In the session on Test Match, panelists elaborated Test match as the pinnacle of cricket, the finer art while T20 was a miniature that perfectly defines, ‘living in the moment.’

The session also saw the launch of Susmita Bagchi’s book ‘Beneath a rougher sea’ by Sahgal.  The discussion took up the growing concern on mental illness that remains undiagnosed,  the challenges of caregivers and the attitude of society towards people with pyscho-somatic behavior.