Overview

• Dr. Pramoda Devi Wadiyar officially opened the 9th Mysuru Literature Festival at Hotel Southern Star in Mysuru.
• The launch session, titled “Lighting the Way: Kannada, Women and the Booker’s International Stage,” featured Booker Prize winners Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi in a conversation moderated by Bharath Diwakar.
• Banu Mushtaq said her writing aims to expose societal evils and urged policymakers to act on the change she portrays in her stories.
• Deepa Bhasthi described translation as a deeply immersive process that requires thinking in two languages and collaborating closely with the author.
• Padma Shri Prahlada Rama Rao emphasized that assured national security underpins the flourishing of literature, art and intellectual life.