Western Ghats Lit Fest 2022

Coimbatore final week lastly discovered itself on the lit-fest map with the Western Ghats Lit Fest organized by Veranda Membership.

Put collectively by part-time fans, the pageant confirmed all indicators of begin with nice potential within the years to return.

Simply as Delhi is obsessive about political narratives, India’s literary festivals have been obsessive about 2-3 excessive profile occasions.

However that is altering now. Lit Fest is now an annual occasion in locations like Pondicherry, Mangalore and Bhubaneshwar. Whereas all these occasions have a sure variety of common company, we’re additionally beginning to see new expertise and new faces rising on the stage.

Curiously, these small, warmly lit festivities assist thinkers ‘see’ India very intently – India’s media personalities are not speaking about just some well-known artifacts or websites.

For instance, the Coimbatore Western Ghats Lit Fest was a really handy factor for a lot of patrons who wished to go to the Dakshin Vrindavan Go-Shala which is barely an hour or extra away.

He’ll now even be talking in regards to the Yogi statues of Coimbatore heritage websites like Perur, Vellingiri hills or Isha Basis and so forth. Similar will occur for Pondi, Mangalore or Bhubaneshwar.

Such celebrations in smaller cities construct mental and organizational capital – people who find themselves in a position to mobilize opinions, generate patronage for brand spanking new books or authors, and extra importantly, new ones to pay for these occasions. Sponsors deliver.

Rajesh Govindarajulu, Jagannathan and Saravana Kumar, organizers of the Western Ghats Lit Fest, have proven that it’s potential to place collectively a top quality occasion in lower than three months. Different spin-offs like e-book studying, creator meet and heritage stroll are being deliberate.

Govindarajulu and Jagannathan are already working onerous in working Veranda Membership, the place webinars are run each week for nearly a yr utilizing a Made in India conferencing app known as Vayam.

Greater than 300 contributors participated within the Western Ghats Lit Fest, most of whom contributed financially.

The occasion was moderated by Shefali Vaidya, who impressed the crew to make ‘Friday Filter Espresso’ and hosted a Lit Fest together with Rajesh Govindarajulu occasions organized by The Veranda Membership. Veranda Membership Patrika, based two years in the past by Rajesh Govindarajulu and Jagannathan, has revealed over 650 articles and 100 movies on cultural subjects.

The audio system included Anand Ranganathan, Vikram Sampath, Shefali Vaidya, S Vijayakumar, TR Ramesh, MR Venkatesh, Ashwin Sampathkumar, Dushyant Sridhar, Ami Ganatra, Venkatesh Rangan, KK Mohammed, Professor Kanagasabapati, Sai Swarupa, Aarti Agarwal, Savio Rodrigues, Pavitra Srinivasan. Had been. and JVC Shriram.