A two-day long literary festival that celebrated
bhakti
, was held in the city recently. Known as the
Mystic Kalinga Festival
, the literary event brought together many acclaimed writers, poets, translators, scholars, storytellers and performers together.
The festival that has been organised for last three years in the city, was themed around the topic “Divine Madness: Knowledge, Ecstasy and Transformation” this year.
Renowned literary figures like Prof
Manoj Das, Sitakant Mohapatra, Ramakant Rath,
Prativa Ray
, Purushottam Agrawal,
Jayant Mohapatra
, Devdas Chhotray, Gourhari Das, Himanshu Vajpayee and Vedanta Bharadwaj along with several others from across the country.
These eminent literary figures read, recited and discussed the extraordinary verse of some of the greatest mystic poets of the subcontinent, from Kabir to
Tulsi Das
, from
Adi Shankara
and
Jayadev to Tukaram and Lal Deb, from Meerabai to Janabai, from Salabega to AbhiramiBhaattar and several others.
“This unique festival which is one-of-its-kind in the state, is a celebration of bhakti – that great tearing disruptive experience of human longing. This festival is the way to celebrate the mystic poets of our past and how they have helped shape our society through their mystic creations,” said
Rashmi Ranjan Parida
, organiser.
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