After a nine-day lengthy celebration of literature, tradition, artwork, movie, music, meals, three classes within the ‘Writer’s Nook (Shabd Samsara)’ with Gujarati actress Kaajal Oza Vaidya, author Jai Vasavada and poet Rajesh Vyas, amongst different occasions, introduced down the curtains on the maiden version of the Ahmedabad Worldwide Ebook Pageant (AIBF) on Sunday.
Kaajal Oza Vaidya led a dialogue on ladies authors and characters in Indian literature, adopted by a chat by author Jai Vasavada and a dialogue on ‘Journey and Ebook Tradition’ by Rajesh Vyas.
On the Culinary Literature stage (Rasoi aur Kitaab), chef Lokesh Parwani led a session on ‘Good Meals, Good Temper: The Key to Wellness’, whereas the Kids’s Nook (Pragya Shivir) had three classes scheduled for the day. One among them was by storyteller and coach Vasudha Ahuja and musician Kunal Shandilya on musical storytelling, one other was by visible artist Mukesh Kumar on calligraphy and a 3rd by poets and musical artists, Kirit Goswami and Krushna Dave on Gujarati Balgeet.
On the Worldwide Stage – 3000 BCE: A dialogue between civilisations, scholar of ayurvedic medication, Lucas Bohrer de Moraes led a session on ‘Comfortable Energy That Connects: Ayurveda, Tradition and Literature’ was held on the final day.
The Kids’s Movie Pageant screened titles like ‘Misplaced’ (from Lithuania), ‘Fireplace and Ice’ (from India) and ‘Selfie with Rostam’ (from China). The culminating session of AIBF-2024 additionally noticed a band efficiency by Mukt on the Cultural Stage (Rangmanch).
Organised by the Nationwide Ebook Belief in partnership with the Ahmedabad Municipal Company, the occasion introduced collectively each regional and worldwide voices to holistically have fun the wealthy confluence of books, tradition, cinema and the culinary arts, stated organisers.
Inaugurated by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on November 30 at Sabarmati Riverfront Occasion Centre, AIBF hosted greater than 340 guide stalls representing publishers and exhibitors throughout the nation. The competition additionally hosted acclaimed and awarded personalities from totally different walks of life for literary classes, writer discussions, workshops, music and dance performances, in addition to culinary classes.
The competition featured insightful discussions on a variety of matters, together with classes on Gujarati novels, literature and humour, the necessity for aiding digital applied sciences with human objective, prevalent cultural narratives in Indian cinema at this time, growing monetary literacy, the significance of recording journey experiences when travelling, the significance of constructing a private model, and India’s wealthy cultural ties with nations like Hungary, Mauritius and Sri Lanka, amongst many others.
Over the last 9 days, The Cultural Stage (Rangmanch) noticed performances by artists practising a wide range of artwork types resembling Bharatnatyam (by Mónica de la Fuente), Kathakali (by Kijote Kathakali, who narrated snippets from Spanish novel Don Quixote), Gujarati folks fusion (by Rushab Ahir and Taarika Joshi) and folks dances of Gujarat (by Jayatu Jayatu Gujaratam).
The Culinary Stage (Rasoi aur Kitaab) and the Kids’s Movie Pageant added new layers of culinary arts and cinema respectively, to AIBF’s mission of encouraging audiences to undertake a multi-faceted strategy when exploring India’s literary and cultural heritage, stated organisers.
