DIGITAL DESK, KOLKATA:- Sahitya Akademi, in collaboration with Women's Christian College Kolkata, organised a symposium titled _Caught between Tongues: Recent Trends in Indian fiction in English_ on Monday, August 28 in the college auditorium. After a welcome address by Devendra Kumar Devesh, the Akademi's Eastern Regional Secretary, and opening remarks by Ajanta Paul, Principal of Women's Christian College, the inaugural session, which was chaired by poet Subodh Sarkar, had prize-winning author Rashmi Narzary delivering the inaugural address, and eminent scholar GJV Prasad claiming in his keynote address that all Indian writing in English was a kind of translation.
This was followed by two academic sessions, featuring papers and presentations by Sreetanwi Chakraborty, Basudhara Roy, Jaydeep Sarangi, Kiriti Sengupta, Sobha Chattopadhyay and Sipra Mukherjee, speaking on issues ranging from recent English fiction of the Indian diaspora, and the vernacular realities of modern Indian fiction, to regional fiction in English translation. The papers and presentations of both the sessions were well received by an audience of academics. The symposium also featured an exhibition and sale of Sahitya Academy publications, as well as a display and sale of Rashmi Narzary's latest work, _An Unfinished Search_.
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