Dikhyaa Mohanty 
The tenth Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF), with the subject “Legends of Ancient Bharat and Beyond: Inspiring Lived Experience in the 21st Century,” will be inaugurated (virtually) by Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. The festival, which is scheduled to take place in Bhubaneswar from February 9 to 11, will feature speakers from four different countries: Nepal, Japan, and Sri Lanka.
The 300 speakers will include, among others, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Sandeep Bamzai, Sitakanta Mohapatra, Amish Tripathi, Paramita Satapathy, Usha Uthup, Uday Prakash, K.R. Meera, Dr. Hindol Sengupta, Milee Ashwarya, Yatish Kumar, Maria Goretti, Koral Dasgupta, Nila Madhab Panda, and Sudharsan Pattnaik. Four women writers, Nasira Sharma, Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri, Prof. Beena Poudyal, and Radhika Iyengar, will receive the Kalinga Literary Awards in various categories.
These sessions will explore diverse topics ranging from democracy and digital revolutions to cultural nationalism and climate justice. The festival will also unveil over 30 new literary works and scholarly monographs and the winners of the Kalinga Book Awards will be announced on February 11.
Rashmi Ranjan Parida, founder of KLF added: “As India emerges as a global leader, the legends of our ancient past offer a compass for ethical leadership and inclusive progress.”
