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Karan Singh opens 2nd Delhi Literature Festival
Dr Karan Singh Opens 2nd Delhi Literature Festival. It was one of the rare occasions to hear someone like Dr Karan Singh, President of the Indian Council of International Relations, reciting poems.
New Delhi: It was one of the rare occasions to hear someone like Dr Karan Singh, President of the Indian Council of International Relations, reciting poems. To the surprise of the packed house at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts he not only inaugurated the 2nd Delhi Literature Festival but also recited extempore one poem after other in English of Keats and Aurobindo, and in Urdu and Hindi. He said that he was a book lover since the age of 12 and today he has a library of 25,000 books. The three-day festival from February 7 to 9 will host a number of interesting literary activities.
Later an exhibition of “Arts of Literature” of Iranian art of book-making was inaugurated followed by tribute to Rajendra Yadav, eminent Hindi writer and founder of Hans, a very popular Hindi magazine, who died recently after a long illness. Hansa Moily read poems.
