Hindi Tv Serial Kitaabnama Books And Beyond

Kitaabnama: Books and Beyond addresses literature and literacy issues through conversation and dialogue. It is a weekly book show. Namita Gokhale A novelist has the most prominent power to accumul >> Read More... , a literary activist, and a writer is behind the concept of the show. Gaurishankar Raina Gaurishankar Raina is a multi-skilled individual w >> Read More... produced the show for the first week, and later Mahendra Kumar Dubey became the producer of the show. Prasoon Joshi Prasoon Joshi is an Indian poet, writer, lyricist >> Read More... , a renowned lyricist, and screenwriter, composed the title song of the show. DD national broadcasted the show. We all know that the reach of any book or book related festival is very less as compared to television which was the very reason behind this show. It has a participatory and inclusive format.

The success of various literary festivals shows the need and desire of people to connect with books and writers. It primarily showcases the multilingual diversity of Indian literature. It shows encounters with writers of different Indian languages, reading sessions, and books. It also has international names’ and voices’ guest appearances. It invites speakers from different languages, not only Hindi, and English like Malayalam, Oriya, Kashmiri, Telugu, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, etc. It features discussions with writers, journalists, intellectuals, filmmakers, journalists, and publishers. The opening episode of the show contained a discussion with Hindi, and Urdu poet, actor, and playwright, Habib Tanvir.

It also had a chat between Namita Gokhale and Kunzang Choden, the first woman of Bhutan to write a novel in English. Later episodes of the show feature different names from popular to lesser known names. Some of the famous names included are Geetanjali Shree, a novelist and short story writer, Uday Prakash Uday Prakash is an Indian journalist, author, poet >> Read More... , a journalist, poet and writer, Mahesh Dattani Mahesh Dattani is an Indian Director, writer, acto >> Read More... , a director, actor and writer, Lord Meghnad Desai, a writer, economist and politician, Advaita Kala Advaita Kala is an Indian author, screenwriter, an >> Read More... , a novelist and script-writer, and Urvashi Butalia, a feminist and publisher. It will show Amish Tripathi Amish Tripathi is an Indian Writer. Amish was born >> Read More... , best-selling author of Shiva Trilogy, in conversation with Namita, Damayanti Beshra, a writer, reading from her book of Santhali Poetry, and Ashok Vajpeyi, an editor, discussing Prem Aur Sangharsh with Rahul Pandita, a journalist, and writer. The show has four hosts: Rupleena Bose, a lecturer and a scriptwriter, Swati Chopra, a writer and poet, Antara Dev Sen, a renowned journalist, and editor, and Satyanand Nirupam, an editor, and festival director.

Namita Gokhale

Namita Gokhale is a literary activist and a writer. She wrote six novels which were a collection of short stories, and work of non-fiction. She is the festival adviser to a literature event in Nepal, Mountain Echoes, and director & founder of the Jaipur Literature Festival with William Dalrymple, an author. She is the only one behind the concept of the only book based show “Kitaabnama: Books and Beyond”.