Biggest Defeat for Humanity is Loss of Skill
Indian Observer Post
Bhopal, Sep 16, 2018: The biggest defeat for humanity is the loss of a skill. Writer Priyamvad brought it to our notice through a reading of his story ‘Munna Bunaiwale’ on the occasion of the release of a children’s magazine, ‘Cycle’. This story was written under Takshila’s children’s literature residency, Takshila Bal Sahitya Srijanpeeth.
On 15th September, a children’s magazine, Cycle, was released in Samanvaya Bhawan, Bhopal. The magazine would be published by Ektara, Takshila’s centre for children’s literature and art, Bhopal. On this occasion, a santoor recital was presented by Ninad Adhikari. Harshit Soni accompanied him on tabla.
Shashi Sablok from Ektara read Cycle’s message. She said that as children we have all made paperboats. This paperboat is unfolded by us to make paper, which we have unfolded to make rivers, mountains and trees. Cycle is made out of all of this.
On this occasion, writers associated with Takshila Bal Sahitya Srijanpeeth- Naresh Saxena, Vinod Kumar Shukla, Sara Rai, AsgarWajahat, Arun Kamal, Priyamvad and Rajesh Joshi read their literary works for children.
After the author readings, the writers answered questions on children’s literature that were raised by the audience, for instance, is there a difference between literature for children and for adults? Adults write from their perspective, how do we know that children are making sense of these stories and poems?
Mudit Srivastav and Nidhi Gaur were the presenters of the programme.
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