Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 20 (ANI): Veteran histrion and person Shatrughan Sinha announced the upcoming variation of the Nalanda Literature Festival (NLF) 2025 successful Mumbai.
Sinha, who graced the lawsuit arsenic a main guest, was besides joined by vocalist Kailash Kher and histrion Akhilendra Mishra, among others. The Nalanda Literature Festival 2025 volition beryllium held from December 21-25, 2025, astatine the historical sites of Rajgir successful Bihar, celebrating the confluence of legacy, language, and literature.
Speaking astir the festival, Shatrughan Sinha described it arsenic a “historic taste renaissance” and a “grand confluence of India’s literary, linguistic, and creator brilliance.”
“It volition not lone showcase the richness of our past and the vitality of our contiguous but besides pave the way for a celebrated aboriginal for Indian languages and culture. With luminaries from art, lit and cinema gracing the event, this festival volition beryllium marked arsenic a taste landmark successful India’s modern history,” helium said, arsenic per a property release.
Festival manager Ganga Kumar explained however the festival focuses connected reconnecting with the civilizational values and intelligence tone of Nalanda. “By hosting scholars, artists, and storytellers here, we privation to animate aboriginal generations to clasp some contented and modernity successful their pursuit of knowledge,” helium added.
During the event, Sinha, on with chairperson D. Aaliya, trustee Dhanu Bihar, Indian Motion Picture Producers’ Association (IMPPA) president Abhay Sinha, festival manager Ganga Kumar and curator Pankaj Dubey, besides introduced the Nalanda Literature Development Programme from September 15, 2025, to March 26, 2026.
Through this initiative, a bid of events volition beryllium carried retired to nurture dialogue, creativity, and taste speech successful the run-up to the festival.
Many different salient personalities besides arrived astatine the event, including Pahlaj Nihalani, Vineet Kumar, Shahu Patole, Rumy Jaffrey, Faisal Malik, Pradaeep Sinha, Sushil Pandey and Leena Yadav.
Besides celebrating the satellite of literature, the Nalanda Literature Festival volition besides people the motorboat of the NLF website. Many guests from much than 10 Indian diaspora countries volition be the festival, making it a planetary solemnisation of India’s intellectual, cultural, and literate heritage. (ANI)
