Literature has no boundary, it binds people all over the world: Bora

 

ITANAGAR, Dec 6: The Arunachal Pradesh Literary Society (APLS) celebrated its 17th foundation day with literary activities in several districts of the state on Tuesday. Addressing the huge gathering of literary lovers at the J N State Museum conference hall here on the occasion, noted Assamese poet Bangshi Bora said, “Literature has no boundary; it binds people all over the world.”
Bora, who is the president of Assam Kabi Sanmilan, called upon the budding talents of Arunachal Pradesh to concentrate on creating literary works to promote brotherhood and harmony among the people of the country and the world as a whole.
Lauding the APLS, Bora said, the literary society of the state is going in the right direction in promoting young literary talents. In his address, APLS president Padmashree awardee Y D Thongchi said that there is no dearth of talents in the state. Commending the sportspersons who are taking part in national and international level events and bringing laurels to the state, Sahitya Akademi Award winner Thongchi said the young generation of the state are excelling in various fields, be it fine arts, music, sports and literature.
“Arunachal should progress in all spheres of activities,” Thongchi said and emphasized on the need of nurturing the budding talents in the field of literature. He also called upon the young generation to join the literary movement of the state, spearheaded by the APLS.
RGU professor (Hindi department) Dr Rajeev Ranjan Prasad in his speech said that the writers need not bother about the literary value of their creativity at the beginning. “Writers can communicate with readers through their literary activities written with deep observation and concentration of what they are writing,” he said. 
On the occasion of the foundation day, APLS released the sixth edition of the only literary magazine of the state “Prayas’. Releasing the magazine chief guest Bora appreciated APLS for publishing the literary magazine and giving spaces to the budding writers as well the seniors. He also said that budding writers will be thrilled to see their literary works in printed format and it will be an inspiration to next generation writers to come. 
During the multilingual literary session, Bipul Dihingia, a well-known poet from Assam and APLS members Ajanta, Bagdevi Dabi, Dr Jumyir Jini, Bengia Antra, Mukul Pathak, Biki Yader, Takam Maga and Ranjit Sinha recited their self-composed poems, short stories.
The foundation day was also celebrated with poetry, short story and folktales writing competitions by the APLS district branches at Khonsa, Bomdila, Ziro and Roing.
At Ziro; We should strive to promote and popularize our own local languages for posterity of our young generation, said Lower Subansiri deputy commissioner Bamin Nime here today.
Inaugurating the APLS foundation day at Hija Govt. Higher Secondary School, Nime cited the examples of literary doyens like late Lummer Dai and Y.D Thongchi who had carved out their names in Assamese literary world through vernacular writings. ‘We should also endeavor to project, promote and popular our own local dialects through our literary works,' he appealed.
Guest of honour and DIPRO Ziro, Gyati Kacho advised the students to focus on creative and positive writings which would have positive social ramifications for society at large. He further suggested the APLS to come out with authenticated books on local history of the District that could be used as a reference book by all including the visiting tourists who sometimes tend to project distorted history of the district in absence of authentic local history books.
While narrating the history of growth and development of APLS in the state, president APLS Ziro unit Dr. Hage Tabio informed that APLS had been founded in 2006 by literary luminary Y.D Thongchi and Ziro branch had been extended in 2018. He further explained that APLS was a platform to uplift and encourage the young, budding and senior citizens to promote their writing pursuits be it literature or poetry.
In his welcome address, APLS Ziro general secretary Taku Nanio informed that competitions in poetry and short story writings were conducted for higher secondary level students of the valley to commemorate the day.
APLS Ziro advisory members and senior citizens Liagi Miri and Dr. Tage Tada also presented short-stories on the need of conservation and preservation of wild life in the valley.
In the poetry section, Taku P. Anya won the first prize for her poem ‘Life is so beautiful’ while Teli Yeti won the first prize in short story writing category for her story on ‘Life of non-living things’. (DIPRO)
At KHONSA: APLS Tirap Unit observed the 16th Foundation Day programme today.
In his speech, the Chief Guest Hakresha Kri emphasized on the importance of the formulation of local Nocte scripts in the future educational curriculum, documentation and preservation of the forms of knowledge which can be achieved only via practising writing. He further encouraged the students to hone their creative skills for story and poetry writing and congratulated the APLS, Tirap Unit on achieving the milestone.

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Kenter Joya Riba

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