Kabita Utsab sees huge interest among the audience

Bengal’s popular cultural event, Kabita Utsab, is a celebration of poetry. It had its five-day festival recently in Kolkata. Throughout the days of the festival, Kolkata celebrated poetry in a unique manner and the love for the art form was in focus. This was the essence of Kabita Utsab, which had an audience of more than 1,000 poetry lovers at the grand finale itself. “This festival is the brainchild of Shakti Chattopadhyay in 1985. The show came alive with the help of Abrittilok,

Sahitya Akademi

, EZCC, Ministry of Culture,

Government of India

. After Shakti Chattopadhyay left us, it was

Sunil Gangopadhyay

who continued with the tradition. For the past three years, Bratati Bandyopadhyay has joined hands with us to take this forward. This year, a programme was held at

Madhusudan Mancha

about the discourse of Tagore and Gandhi since we focussed on 150 years of Gandhiji,” said Soumitra Mitra, theatre personality and reciter.

This year, Chimoy Guha, Professor of English, University of Calcutta, and recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award 2019 was felicitated at the programme.