Overview
- The CLF Literati Awards 2025 were presented, with The Undying Light by Gopalkrishna Gandhi winning English non-fiction, The Ayodhya Alliance by Ashwin Sanghi taking English fiction, and Shubh Din by Balram honored in the Hindi category.
- Festival director Dr Sumita Misra said the awards will be announced at Literati each year to position Chandigarh as a national literary destination.
- Day two featured ‘Bihar Diaries and Ground Zero’ with IPS author Amit Lodha joined by Veena Raman and IPS officer-author Arsh Verma.
- The closing program included new launches—Life, Love and Us by Sonia Vashisht Oberoi and Echoes of the Soul by Ravee Pandher—plus sessions with Rujuta Diwekar, Dr Ashwini Kumar, Ashwin Sanghi, and a Qawwali-focused panel.
- This year’s edition ran November 22–23 at the Lake Club under the theme ‘World Within Words’ after opening addresses by Sumita Misra and Sahitya Akademi president Madhav Kaushik.