City bids adieu 8th International Writers Festival

BHUBANESWAR: The writers became emotional while reciting poem at the valedictory session of the two-day long 8th International Writers Festival held here on Sunday. They were applauding their fellow writers for mesmerising the audiences with lots of emotion in their poetry. They were trying to understand the culture, tradition and feelings from the poems of their writer friends.

The feminist writers from Bangladesh, Uzbekistan and different States of India recited in their poems about place of women in their country along with their dignity and social status in their society. What women want to be and how society betrays her, they narrated in their poem. Some optimist and nature poets from South Africa, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Macedonia and Uzbekistan promised in their poems to make a better world with the help of empathetic human beings.

Salyamova Kamola of Uzbekistan

According to Salyamova Kamola of Uzbekistan, love is something special like Indians. She praised Indian women and their womanhood and said in her poem ‘Slogan of Women’ that the women can be proud as an ideal wife, while Bangladeshi poet Lovely Yesmin stated in her poem ‘Women’s Heaven’ about the sexual discrimination and gender violence in her society.

Most of the Indian writers including Nikita Bharadwaj from Rajasthan, Nibedita Jena from Odisha, PL Sridharan from Kerala and SM Rizwan Ahmad from Jharkhand told in their poems about love, inner feelings, inclination and psychology of men and women day to day life in the society, while some of them narrated about various issues in the country.

The festival was the brainchild of India Inter-continental Cultural Association which was co-organised by Pakhighara publication and Shruti- the school of music.