Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters goes live
Festival to feature over 30 sessions with renowned authors and speakers from across the globe; Shashi Tharoor addresses opening session
The much-awaited Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters kicked off its 2nd edition of annual event on Friday. The festival will feature over 30 sessions with world–renowned authors, speakers across the globe.
The event was inaugurated by Chief Minister of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan, along with writer, Prof Germaine Greer, MP Veerendra Kumar – Managing Director, Mathrubhumi, P V Gangadharan – Managing Editor – Mathrubhumi Group and M V Shreyams Kumar – Jt Managing Director – Mathrubhumi Group, and P I Rajeev, Executive Editor – Mathurbhumi.
“A man becomes a man only when he acquires knowledge,” the Chief Minister said. He also mentioned that no political party could mislead an educated public.
MP Veerendra Kumar said, “The festival will see vibrant writers from across the world with a common purpose of celebrating literature and celebrating human mankind, dignity and freedom at the same time, the true value of human freedom can only be felt by someone who has to loose freedom he said.”
MBIFL 2019’s opening session was addressed by writer-diplomat-politician Dr Shashi Tharoor as the keynote speaker on “Era of Darkness – Then & Now”, the title which is a reference to the book he had published in 2016, Inglorious Empire what the British did to India. A book that looked at 200 years of British colonolionsm not as a narrative history but as an argument which laid out what the British had done in the course of these centuries that we could look back upon and formulate a judgement about.
