{"id":74582,"date":"2019-08-05T01:35:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T20:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=74582"},"modified":"2019-08-05T01:35:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T20:05:12","slug":"promotion-of-literary-activities-a-must-to-safeguard-culture-and-language-sahitya-akademi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/08\/05\/promotion-of-literary-activities-a-must-to-safeguard-culture-and-language-sahitya-akademi\/","title":{"rendered":"Promotion of literary activities a must to safeguard culture and language: Sahitya Akademi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[ Ranjit Sinha ]<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Aug 4:<\/strong> Promotion of literature and literary activities is a must to safeguard the culture and language of any community, said Sahitya Akademi&#8217;s eastern regional secretary Devendra Kumar Devesh.<br \/>\nDevesh said this while addressing a literary programme which was organized jointly by the Sahitya Akademi and the Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Sahitya Parishad, Assam State Committee (NBMSP-ASC) at Silchar College in Assam on 2 August.<br \/>\nHighlighting the Sahitya Akademi&#8217;s role in promoting the literatures of various linguistic minorities of the country, Devesh emphasized on involving the young generation in literary activities.<br \/>\n&#8220;Language, dialect and culture can be saved only through promotion of literary activities of that community,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nLauding the literature of the Bishnupriya Manipuri community, he asked the young writers of the community to take Bishnupriya Manipuri literature to newer heights.<br \/>\nHe said the Sahitya Akademi would play a pivotal role in promoting Bishnupriya Manipuri literature and chalk out a plan and a programme for the purpose.<br \/>\nThe Bishnupriya Manipuri Sahitya Parishad&#8217;s Assam unit executive president and poet Sudhanya Sinha also spoke during the programme, which was presided over by noted poet and critic Barun Kumar Sinha.<br \/>\nEminent litt\u00e9rateurs, including NBMSP-ASC president Dils Lakshmindra Sinha and general secretary Shibendra Sinha, besides<br \/>\nMathura Sinha and Kanchanbaran Sinha, recited self-composed poems in presence of a large number of noted personalities of the Bishnupriya Manipuri community, including Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri Mahasabha advisor Chandra Kanta Sinha, its secretary-general Udhay Sinha, general secretary Swapan Sinha, poet Rashamay Sinha, and others.<br \/>\nThe participants also mourned the demise of photojournalist Malin Sharma (43) and observed a minute&#8217;s silence as a mark of respect to the departed soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Ranjit Sinha ] ITANAGAR, Aug 4: Promotion of literature and literary activities is a must to safeguard the culture and language of any community, said Sahitya Akademi&#8217;s eastern regional secretary Devendra Kumar Devesh. Devesh said this while addressing a literary programme which was organized jointly by the Sahitya Akademi and the Nikhil Bishnupriya Manipuri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}