The closing day of the three-day Dhaka Literary Festival (DLF)—popularly known as the Dhaka Lit Fest—has begun with spiritual songs in Dhaka University’s Bangla Academy premises.
Singer Tony Michael and his team performed in the Saturday morning session, the organizers said.
DLF—the the biggest international literary festival in Bangladesh with over 200 international literary figures—kicked off on Thursday amid much enthusiasm and festivity.
Saturday will see at least 30 sessions taking place with local and foreign literary luminaries participating.
In the session “Varied Tongues,” Poet Kamal Chowdhury in conversation with academics Shourav Sikder and Jinnat Imtiaz Ali, and mother language-rights activist Garga Chatterjee will be talking about the linguistic and cultural diversity of the country at the PSR seminar room at 10am.
Famous Indian actress Monisha Koirala—who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer five years ago and wrote a book “Healed” after beating cancer—will share her struggles, confessions, disappointments and uncertainty, and the experiences she had along the way.
She will be accompanied by DLF Director Sadaf Saaz in the session “Healed” taking place at 11:15pm at the AKSB auditorium.
DLF’s long-standing friend and Oscar-winner British actress Tilda Swinton— in conversation with Ahsan Akbar in her session titled “On Dramduan Hill”—will be speaking about things she is passionate about at the AKSB auditorium at 3:15pm.
Dhaka Tribune Editor Zafar Sobhan, journalist Afsan Chowdhury, The Wall Street Journal's Hugo Restall, Author Annie Zaidi with Asif Islam will discuss about UK’s Brexit, the Trump election and their political debates in their session “Rights in the age of fake news” at 4:30pm at the AKSB auditorium.
The session will also examine the problem around the world and talk about possible solutions.
The closing session will be held at the same venue at 7pm in presence of Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith.
