No charismatic celebrities, no AC hall, no support from government or non-government agencies and yet, Karnataka Janasahitya Samavesha, organised as a challenge to the Dharwad Sahitya Sambhrama was a complete success and welcomed literature lovers from all walks of life.
No charismatic celebrities, no AC hall, no support from government or non-government agencies and yet, Karnataka Janasahitya Samavesha, organised as a challenge to the Dharwad Sahitya Sambhrama was a complete success and welcomed literature lovers from all walks of life.
The two-day event that concluded on Sunday, is definitely a milestone in the history of Kannada and the lovers of Kannada literature. According to one of the organisers, Basavaraj Sulibhavi, the convention proved that language and literary movements can continue without financial help of the government or corporates with vested interests.
The Dharwad Sahitya Sambhrama held in January on the lines of the Jaipur Literary Festival, had faced a lot of criticism of being ‘anti-people’ and ‘anti-democratic’ in nature. Though Sambhrama was opened for all, like-minded writers had decided to organise an alternative convention in Dharwad to express their opposition against the corporatisation of literature.
As result of such a protest being the ideal, the convention was inaugurated in simple manner on Saturday and provided a platform for the voicing of opinions on issues like different dimensions of current problems, the literature of the new generation, writing on social science, cultural apprehensions and the possibility of new movement in Kannada literature. It should be mentioned here that convention had included experts from various walks of life, including agriculture, education, research, students and homemakers.
Emphasising on the convention, KP Suresh, convener of Green Foundation, Bangalore, opined that it forced progressive forces to come under a banner. Researcher at the Karnataka University Dharwad, Arun Joladakudligi hoped that the event would fill up the vacuum existing in the Kannada literary world after the 1990s. “In a world where everything is commercialised, this convention stressed on using literature as a weapon to design public opinion on contemporary issues and that is reassuring,” he explained.
Veteran writer GP Basavaraju also graced the occasion and stated that the event was successful in educating young writers to design their own standards for literary works. Describing the Sambhrama as an instance of globalisation, revolutionary writer Siddanagouda Patil went on to underline that ‘pro-people’ literature, as pushed forward by the convention, was the need of the hour.
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