Two-day seminar on children’s literature begins today

Two-day seminar on Konkani children’s literature, organised jointly by the Sahitya Academy, New Delhi and Goa Konkani Academy will be inaugurated tomorrow at the Art Gallery of the Institute Menezes Braganza hall, Panaji at 10.30 a.m.

The seminar will be inaugurated by Mr Anant Pai, while

GKA president, Mr Pundalika Naik will also be present at the function. The introduction and aim behind the two-day seminar on Konkani children’s literature will be explained by Sahitya Academy award wining writer, Mr Damodar Mauzo.

Seminar attained significant importance to Konkani language as more and more children’s literature are now being published in Konkani. The first session will begin after the inauguration at 2 p.m. on ‘Children’s literature: As it stands today.’ The session will be chaired by Mr Gurunath Kelekar while Ms Sunitabai, Jochim Pinto and Madhavi Sardessai will presents their papers.

The second session will be held at 4 p.m on “Fantasy and scientific temperaments in children’s literature” which will be chaired by Mr Shrikant Nagvenkar while Ms Snehalata Bhatikar, Ms Rajashri Bandodkar Karapurkar and Mr Satish Dalvi will present their papers.

On Saturday September 6, the third session will be held at 10 a.m. on “Children’s’ plays’, which will be chaired by well known theatre personality, Mr Shridhar Kamat Bambolkar, while Mr Umesh Mahambre, Mr Vincy Quadros and Mr Purnanand Chari will present their papers.

The fourth session will be held at 12 noon on “Readings by children writer’, which will be chaired by editor of Sunaparant, Mr Sandesh Prabhudessai. The fifth session will be held at 2 p.m. on ‘folk literature’ which will be chaired by well known poet, Mr Ramesh Veluskar, in which Ms Jayanti Naik, Mr Kamlakar Mhalshi and Ms Jyotsna Kamat will present their papers. The valedictory function will be held at 4 p.m. in which editor of Bimb, Mr Deelip Borkar will preside over.