Lit O Fest Highlights with Sushant Singh Rajput, Divya Dutta, Tannishtha Chatterjee

Highlight of Lit O Fest 2017

· Event was inaugurated by Deputy Counsel General of United States, Ms. Jennifer Larson

· Army band performanced at the opening ceremony followed by the literature on Indian army by Mukul Deva, Col Lalit Rai and Manju Lodha

· Ex American counsellor Richard Rothman spoke about economy post trum

· ‘Infrastructure development in India- the way forward’ session convened by Mr. Bibop Gresta, Chairman, Hyperloop Transporation Technologies, Mr. Vijay Kalantri - Indian industrialist, Chairman and Managing Director of Balaji Infra Projects Limited and Dighi Port Limited, Mahesh Zagade, IAS officer along with other eminent speakers

· Mr. Uday Prakash, Mr. Kedarnath and Mr. Anand Neelakantan felicitated with ‘Literature Legend Award’ for their contribution to literature in Hindi and English Language

· A special session for and by poets called ‘Kavita tu Satrangi Re’ which had acclaimed poet Ashok Chakradhar

· A marque session on body shaming which was convened by Dr. Shivani Chaturvedi, Ms. Tanishtha Chatterjee, Ms. Moushmi Mitra, Ms. Divya Dutta and Ms. Smita Parikh

· Experimental Music Session with top notch singers Ankit Tiwari, Anup Jalota spontaneous lyric writing and composition along with singing for first time

· Session on Sushant Singh Rajput's upcoming book with Mr. Pankaj Dubey.

· ‘Reality of reality shows’ by Poonam Dhillon, Gajendra Singh and Abhijit Sawant

· Anand Neelkanthan - Bahubali prequel was discussed with Smita Parikh

· Biggest names of Indian dance – Dr. Sonal Mansingh, Dr. Kanak Rele, Uma Rele, Sandeep Soparrkar and Ashley Lobo was seen sharing the stage together

· For the first time teenagers got a platform - Pal and Chin Vardhman - the talented director producer duo of award winning graphic film The Adventure of Pal & Chin

About Lit O Fest

Lit O Fest, now in its 3rd chapter, has evolved into much more than just a festival. It has grown into a serious platform that gives equal opportunity to all writers including Emerging, Hindi, Dalit & Regional writers with aspirations and talent to come together on one stage to showcase their work along with the literary superstars and bestsellers.

Lit O Fest has become a stepping stone to many aspiring writers, singers, artists and students to go one step closer to achieving their dream. Being committed to this cause of promoting and building literary talent, Lit O Fest runs several simultaneous initiatives to train, educate and publish writings of aspiring authors. Their programs to this effort run through the year which includes training sessions, knowledge session and contests for aspiring authors which eventually lead to publishing contracts for deserving talent. In their first year, they published 8 books for free and in the second year the team plans to take up to 20 books for publishing.

This year Lit O Fest has adopted Dahigaon village in the Shahpur district in Maharashtra as a part of their social responsibility. Schools, toilets, drinking water, solar power, digitisation, medical facilities as well as counsellors to guide children from the Dahigaon village to empower them to achieve their dreams using education & literacy as the core foundation are a few initiatives which the organization will undertake. A painting on Indian army medals will be auctioned to support the village adoption post the Army panel during the event.

The team, led by Ms. Smita Parikh, plan to take Lit O Fest to the United States of America in 2017 as a showcase of Indian culture, art and literature.