Aadi Se Ant Tak: Prelude toC’garh Sahitya Utsav held Aadi Se Ant Tak: Prelude toC’garh Sahitya Utsav held

 

 

THE Chhattisgarh government will organise a Sahitya Utsav in Nava Raipur in January 2026. As a prelude to the festival, a literary programme titled ‘Aadi Se Anant Tak’ was organised today at the Constitution Club of India in New Delhi. Two discussion sessions were held during the event—“Sahitya Utsav Mein Kitna Sahitya” (How Much Literature Is There in a Literature Festival) and “Shri Vinod Kumar Shukla Ka Na Hona”, a remembrance and tribute to the noted writer Vinod Kumar Shukla in which eminent authors and poets took part.

 

Chairman of Chhattisgarh Sahitya Academy Shashank Sharma shared that young people were deeply drawn to Vinod Kumar Shukla and that his home was always filled with young visitors. He highlighted Shukla’s significant contribution to children’s literature. Sharma recounted that when he once asked Shukla about his shift from serious writing to children’s literature, Shukla replied that while he had done ample serious writing, he felt a responsibility toward the younger generation and saw children’s literature as a way to do justice to them.

 

Writer and poet Dr Sachchidanand Joshi, recalling his meeting with Shukla, said that despite being such a towering literary figure, he was extremely simple and unassuming. His conversations were marked by warmth, sincerity, and clarity, free from any pretence—qualities that also defined his writing. Writer Anant Vijay, writer Pratap Raghuvanshi , writer Anil Joshi and others also addressed the programme