Programme

Tentative Programme Schedule

Informal Introductions/Tea

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Formal Welcome Speech

10:00 AM - 10:10 AM

Pooja Priyamvada

Felicitation of Chief Guest and Foreign Guests by Sh. Upendrra Rai, Pooja Priyamvada & Vivek Satya Mitram

10:10 AM - 10:20 AM

HE Prof. Anil Sooklal

Kayshav Tewari

HRH Prince Zolani Mkiva

Matt Sedillo

Dr. Nelistra S Sooklal

Kamila Junik

Raj Mohan

Remon Bhagwandin

Lighting of the Lamp

10:20 AM - 10:30 AM

Keynote Speech: Why Ghazipur? Why going back to the roots?

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM

Upendrra Rai

Chief Guest’s Address: Of Roots & Branches: A son’s journey back to the roots

11:15 AM - 11:35 AM

HE Prof. Anil Sooklal

Panel 1: Why Ghazipur matters? Why is discovering the roots essential?

11:35 AM - 12:10 PM

Vivek Satya Mitram

Aanjjan Srivastav

Dr. Neerja Madhav

Mrityunjay Kumar Singh

Vyomesh Shukla

Manoj Bhawuk

Poorvanchal: The Pulse of Indian Democracy

12:10 PM - 12:30 PM

Yashwant Deshmukh

Africa & India two civilisations in the process of going back to the roots

12:30 PM - 12:45 PM

HRH Prince Zolani Mkiva

Culture & legacy of Poorvanchal

12:45 PM - 1:00 PM

Dr. Ajit Chaturvedi

Chief Guest’s Address

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Shri Harivansh

Lunch

1:00 PM - 1:40 PM

Keynote Speech: In a Global World looking at Regional Identities

1:45 PM- 2:00 PM

Kayshav Tewari

Panel 2: The Eternal Batohiyas- The dark history of colonialism & erasure of identity

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Pooja Priyamvada

HRH Prince Zolani Mkiva

Dr. Nelistra S Sooklal

M K Raina

Matt Sedillo

Kamila Junik

Raj Mohan

Kashi aur Lahuri Kashi: Sangeet aur Sabhyta

2:45 PM - 3:15 PM

Padma Shri Dr. Rajeshwar Acharya

Vivek Satya Mitram

LIVE singing Batohiya Song

3:15 PM - 3:35 PM

Raj Mohan

Remon Bhagwandin

Vote Of Thanks

3:35 PM - 3:45 PM

Vivek Satya Mitram

Networking Tea

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Day closes at 4:15 pm

Welcome song+ Lamp Lighting

11:00 AM - 11:10 AM

Welcome Note

11:10 AM - 11:20 AM

Pooja Priyamvada

Context setting Address

11:20 AM - 11:35 AM

Upendrra Rai

Chief Guest Address

11:35 AM - 11:55 AM

Shri Manoj Sinha

Book Reveal: Bhojpuri Kahavaton ki Duniya by Sanjeev Gupta

11:55 AM - 12:00 PM

Bharat Dialogues Baatcheet: The pilgrimage to one’s roots

12:05 PM - 12:35 PM

HE Prof. Anil Sooklal

Vivek Satya Mitram

Pooja Priyamvada

Panel A1- Poorvanchal Sambhavnayen aur Safar

12:35 PM - 1:20 PM

Dr. Anand Pradhan

Jitendra B Singh

Dr. Omkar Rai

Arvind Singh

Vishwa Vijay Singh

Achyout Pandey

Lunch

1:30 PM

Classical Singing- Atharv Pandey, Shivanee Pandey

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Chandan Tiwari

Chief Guest Cultural Session: Chandan Tiwari

Bharat Dialogues Baatcheet: Palayan ke dard se upji Kala

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

M K Raina

Pooja Priyamvada

Bharat Dialogues Baatcheet: Upendrra Rai- From Margins to Power centres

3:00 PM - 3:45 PM

Upendrra Rai

Vivek Satya Mitram

Geet Sangeet- Bhojpur se Duniya Bhar

3:45 PM - 4:45 PM

Chandan Tiwari

Musical performance by Chandan Tiwari

Kavya Ganga (Hindi, Bhojpuri, Urdu & English)

4:45 PM - 6:45 PM

Manoj Bhawuk

Dr. M D Singh

Nomaan Shauque

Matt Sedillo

Azhar Iqbal

Rati Saxena

Suman Singh

Himanshu Upadhyay

Vinay Rai Baburang

Chief Patron Upendrra Rai’s Speech

6:45 PM - 7:00 PM

Upendrra Rai

GLF Awards

7:00 PM - 7:40 PM

Closing remarks

7:40 PM

Vivek Satya Mitram

Panel B1- Women in Poorvanchal Consciousness

12:05 PM - 12:45 PM

Rati Saxena

Dr. Neerja Madhav

Kamila Junik

Dr. Shraddha Singh

Priyadarshan

Panel B2- Bhojpuri Cinema vis a vis other regional films- pitfalls & possibilities

12:45 PM - 1:25 PM

Nomaan Shauque

Avinash Das

Sanjay Massoom

Satya Vyas

Amit Behl

Manoj Bhawuk

Lunch

1:30 PM

Kashi aur Lahuri Kashi- Ek Anokha bandhan

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Vyomesh Shukla

Vivek Satya Mitram

Panel B3- Trends in Reading: Will Books lose relevance?

2:30 PM - 3:15 PM

Rati Saxena

Sushant Jha

Satya Vyas

Anu Shakti Singh

Pradeep Sharma

Prof. Aanand Singh

Panel B4- Bhojpuri Sahitya Ateet, Vartmaan aur bhavishya

3:15 PM - 4:00 PM

Nirala Bidesiya

Mrityunjay Kumar Singh

Prof. Prabhakar Singh

Rakesh Srivastava

Dr. Suman Singh

Book Release- Kakahera

12:05 PM - 12:30 PM

Dr. Devendra Nath Tiwari

Sadanand Shahi

Rakesh Srivastava

Bhavtosh Pandey

Panel C1- Music as Storytelling

12:30 PM - 1:05 PM

Shivendra Kumar Singh

Dr. Ram Narayan Tiwari

Dr Sagar

Ananyaa Gaur

Pradeep Sharma

Book Discussion: Bhojpuri Kahavaton ki Duniya

1:05 PM - 1:30 PM

Sadanand Shahi

Mrityunjay Kumar Singh

Bhavtosh Pandey

Lunch

1:30 PM

Panel C2- Itihas ke darpan mein Ghazipur

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Dr. Anand Pradhan

Dr. Mandhata Rai

Dr. Ram Narayan Tiwari

Surya Kumar Singh

Panel C3- Bhojpuri ko bhasha ka Darja kyu nahin?

2:45 PM - 3:20 PM

Dr. Devendra Nath Tiwari

Shivendra Kumar Singh

Bhavtosh Pandey

Documentary Screening: Madanm Coolie by Amanda Hansavathy

3:25 PM - 4:00 PM

Amanda Hansavathy

Raj Mohan

Session Chair: Raj Mohan

Welcome Note

10:00 AM - 10:10 AM

Vivek Satya Mitram

Keynote Address

10:10 AM - 10:35 AM

Upendrra Rai

Folk Singing- Vaishnavi Rai, Shambhavi Upadhyay, Pushkar Upadhyay

10:35 AM - 11:05 AM

Anshu Gupta

Chief Guest Cultural session: Anshu Gupta

Bharat Dialogues Baatcheet: Africa & India: Reclaiming a heritage

11:05 AM - 11:35 AM

HRH Prince Zolani Mkiva

Pooja Priyamvada

Vivek Satya Mitram

Bharat Dialogues Baatcheet: Mera Ghar Kahan Hai- Growing up in Girmitiya heritage

11:35 AM - 12:15 PM

Raj Mohan

Kayshav Tewari

Vivek Satya Mitram

Panel AA1- Films, Crime & Suspense in Bhojpuri popular culture

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

Priyadarshan

Manoj Rajan Tripathi

Avinash Das

Amit Behl

M K Raina

Lunch

1:00 PM

Dastan- E-Ram

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM

Fouzia Dastango

Ritesh Yadav

Dastangoi performance by Fouzia Dastango & Ritesh Yadav

Bharat Dialogues Baatcheet: Roti, Kapda Aur Makaan

2:45 PM - 3:15 PM

Anshu Gupta

Vivek Satya Mitram

Bharat Dialogues Baatcheet: Chhote Shehron ki Badi Kahaniyan

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Divya Prakash Dubey

Pooja Priyamvada

Bharat Dialogues Baatcheet: Bhaiya ji se batiyayen

4:00 PM - 4:40 PM

Prateek Trivedi

Vivek Satya Mitram

Sham-e-Ghazal

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Ananyaa Gaur

Nupur Awasthi

Performance by Ananya Gaur and Ms. Nupur Awasthi

Videshon se Lauta Bhojpuri Sangeet

6:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Raj Mohan

Remon Bhagwandin

Awards felicitations

7:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Upendrra Rai

HE Prof. Anil Sooklal

HRH Prince Zolani Mkiva

7:30 pm Final Closing speech

7:30 PM onwards

Vivek Satya Mitram

Panel BB1- Ghazipur ke Literary Legends

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM

Dr. Mandhata Rai

Dr. Manoj Kumar Rai

Amarnath Tiwari

Dheerendra Rai

Dr. Aprajita Rai

Panel BB2- Poorvanchal aur Palayan

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Nirala Bidesiya

Dr. Neerja Madhav

Abhay Mishra

Dr. Anand Pradhan

Sushant Jha

Panel BB3- Ghazipur ka Aadhyatamik Mahatav

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM

Madhav Krishna

Raghav Sharan Sharma

Dr. Santosh Kumar Mishra

Lunch

1:00 PM

Bharat Dialogues Baatcheet: Aanjjan Ki Nazar- Bollywood aur Ghazipur

1:45 PM - 2:15 PM

Aanjjan Srivastav

Vivek Satya Mitram

Panel BB4 Projection Vs Reality: Poorvanchal on the Silver Screen

2:15 PM - 3:00 PM

Upendrra Rai

Avinash Das

Sanjay Massoom

Dr Sagar

Satya Vyas

Theatre Workshop/Interaction for students

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Neel Kamal Dogra

Experts: Neel Dogra

Theatre Workshop/Interaction for students

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

M K Raina

Panel CC1 Discussion about Film Baklols (Stage Sponsored Session)

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Satya Vyas

Sneha Singh

Manoj Tiger

Abhinav Arun

Panel CC2 Poorvanchal In Media: Fitting a mould or breaking it?

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM

Vibhuti Narain Chaturvedi

Anu Shakti Singh

Manoj Rajan Tripathi

Samir Chatterjee

Documentary Screening Orhni - film by Raj Mohan

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

Raj Mohan

Lunch

1:00 PM

Panel CC3- Ghazipur in Freedom Struggle & Army Valour

1:45 PM - 2:30 PM

Dr. Manoj Kumar Rai

Dr. Anand Pradhan

Upendrra Rai

Samir Chatterjee

Abhinav Arun

Bharat Dialogues Baatcheet: Historical Fiction: Films & Literature

2:15 PM -2:45 PM

Manoj Rajan Tripathi

Manoj Bhawuk

Book Release- Gathri by Sruthi Krishnan

2:45 PM - 3:30 PM

Sruthi Krishnan

Prakash Uday

Raj Mohan

Pradeep Sharma

Madhav Krishna