SOA Literary Festival

Day 1

November 24, 2023

2 pm – 3.15 pm : Session(2)

Media And Literature: Media, New Media And Literature
Chair: Umakanta Mishra
Panelists:
1. A. Krishnarao
2. Maalan
3. Anant Vijay
4. Manas Pratim Gohain
5. Manogya Loiwal

3.15 pm – 4pm : Session(3)

Jatindra Kumar Nayak in conversation with Ashis Nandy

4 pm – 5pm : Session(4)

Dinosaur In My Garden: Literature & Artificial Intelligence
Moderator: Kedar Mishra
Panelists:
1. Prabal Kumar Basu
2. Ashwani Kumar
3. Biyot Prajna Tripathy
4. Sampad Pattnaik

5pm – 5.45pm : Session(5)

Kedar Mishra In Conversation With Anant Mahapatra

5.45 pm – 6.30 pm : Session(6)

Multilingual Poetry Reading session (1)
Chair: Prabodh Parikh (Gujarati)
Readings :
1. Leeladhar Mandloi (Hindi)
2. Vanita (Punjabi)
3. Mamata Dash(Odia)
4. Amarendra Khatua(Odia)
5. Mukul Kumar (English)
6. Barsa Ray (English)

6.30 pm – 7.15 pm : Session (7)

Multilingual Poetry Reading session (2)
Chair: Soubhagya Kumar Mishra (Odia)
Readings :
1. Rajendra Kishore Panda(Odia)
2. Anamika (Hindi)
3. Prabal Kumar Basu (Bengali)
4. Salma(Tamil)
5.Bishnupada Sethi(English)
6.Bhagaban Jaysingh(Odia)

2 pm – 3 pm : Session(8)

A Tribute to Jayant Mahapatra
Chair: Sukrita Paul Kumar
Panelists:
1. Deepak Samantrai
2. Nilim Kumar
3. Ashwani Kumar
4. Durga Prasad Panda

3 pm – 4.30 pm : Session(9)

LGBTQ Session: A Story Seldom
Told-The Long Journey of Struggle
Chair: Hoshang Merchant
Panelists:
1. Manabi Bandyopadhyay
2. Devika Devendra S Mangalamukhi
3. A. Revathi
4. Sanjana Simon
5. Shiven Gureja
6. Meera Parida

4.30pm – 5.30pm : Session(10)

“Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant”: Themes & Presentation
Styles In Contemporary Poetry- An Overview
Chair: Rajendra Kishore Panda
Panelists:
1. Bhagaban Jayasingh
2. Anamika

5.30pm –7pm : Session (11)

What Freedom Means To Me?
Chair: Aparna Mohanty
Panelists :
1. Salma
2. Sanjana Simon
3. Shiven Gureja
4. Moumita
5. Sujit Kumar Panda

2pm – 3pm : Session (12)

Jagannath Culture
Chair: Harekrishna Satpathy
Panelists:
1. Jagannath Consciousness – Shailaj Rabi
2. Temple Dance Tradition – Asit Mohanty
3. Temple Language – Siddheswar Mohapatra
4. Temple Rituals – Gopalkrusna Dash
5. Science & Jagannath Culture – Bhubanananda Adhikari

3pm – 4pm : Session (13)

Saroladas Mahabharatha
Chair: Nityananda Sahu
Panelists:
1. Mystery of Saroladas – Natabar Satpathy
2. Mahabharata and Mahabharatha – Bijayalaxmi Dash
3. Mahabharatha Editing – Pradipta Kumar Panda
4. Language of Mahabharatha – Santosh Kumar Ratha

4pm – 5pm : Session (14)

Classical Language: Odia
Chair: Debi Prasanna Pattanayak
Panelists:
1. Language Politics – Basant Kumar Panda
2. Tribal Language – Ramesh Chandra Mallik
3. Genesis of Odia Language: A Cultural Perspective – Baishnaba Charan Mohanty
4. Language of Inscriptions and Cupper Plates of Odisha – Subrat Kumar Acharya

5pm – 6pm : Session (15)

The Aesthetics of Odia Story Telling
Moderator: Ajaya Swain
Panelists:
1. Tale, legend & History: Jayanti Rath
2. Poetry in Story: Paresh Kumar Pattanaik
3. Story in Poetry: Arabinda Roy
4. Story and Fantasy: Prakash Mahapatra

6pm – 7.15pm : Session (16)

Poetry Reading…… (1)
Chair: Surya Mishra
Readings:
1. Biraja Bal
2. Amiya Ranjan Mohapatra
3. Ratnamala Swain
4. Durga Prasad Panda
5. Pitambar Tarai
6. Pabitra Mohan Dash
7. Bharat Majhi
8. Pritidhara Samal
9. Saroj Bal
10. Sharmistha Sahu
11. Pratikshya Jena