<p>Sahitya Akademi will organise a day-long poetry festival at Jain University on Saturday.</p>.<p>It is their first offline poetry event in Bengaluru since 2020. It is being held to mark Gandhi Jayanti, and 75 years of India’s Independence.</p>.<p>Called All India Poetry Festival, it will host about 20 poets from across the country, including eminent Kannada poets H S Venkatesha Murthy, Chandrashekhar Kambar, and B R Lakshman Rao.</p>.<p>The line-up also includes younger poets like Mallengada Sudha Muthanna, Mithra Alaguvel, and Uthrisar Kungur Basumatary.</p>.<p>They will discuss the future of poetry, and read poems in 15 Indian languages. In a first, poetry readings will also be done in tribal languages like Kodava, and Gondi. </p>.<p>A book exhibition will also be held. “It will have over 500 titles. We will stock children’s literature like ‘Balala Manchi Kathalu’ in Telugu but they will be fewer,” says S P Mahalingeshwar, regional secretary, Sahitya Akademi.</p>.<p>Among the translated works, ‘Kannada Literature — From the eleventh century through the nineteenth century: A reader’ is a great book to look out for, he says.</p>.<p><em><span class="italic">All India Poetry Festival on October 2, 10 am to 5 pm, at Jain University, JC Road. Entry free.</span></em></p>
<p>Sahitya Akademi will organise a day-long poetry festival at Jain University on Saturday.</p>.<p>It is their first offline poetry event in Bengaluru since 2020. It is being held to mark Gandhi Jayanti, and 75 years of India’s Independence.</p>.<p>Called All India Poetry Festival, it will host about 20 poets from across the country, including eminent Kannada poets H S Venkatesha Murthy, Chandrashekhar Kambar, and B R Lakshman Rao.</p>.<p>The line-up also includes younger poets like Mallengada Sudha Muthanna, Mithra Alaguvel, and Uthrisar Kungur Basumatary.</p>.<p>They will discuss the future of poetry, and read poems in 15 Indian languages. In a first, poetry readings will also be done in tribal languages like Kodava, and Gondi. </p>.<p>A book exhibition will also be held. “It will have over 500 titles. We will stock children’s literature like ‘Balala Manchi Kathalu’ in Telugu but they will be fewer,” says S P Mahalingeshwar, regional secretary, Sahitya Akademi.</p>.<p>Among the translated works, ‘Kannada Literature — From the eleventh century through the nineteenth century: A reader’ is a great book to look out for, he says.</p>.<p><em><span class="italic">All India Poetry Festival on October 2, 10 am to 5 pm, at Jain University, JC Road. Entry free.</span></em></p>