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Mountain echoes from Bhutan’s first literary festival


June 14, 2010 | By IPP Newdesk with inputs from Bhutan’s national newspaper Kuensel

Bhutan’s first-ever literary festival, Mountain Echoes, was inaugurated by the country’s queen mother Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck and a keynote presentation on Gross National Happiness by prime minister Lyonpo Jigmi Thinley. The festival’s first day took place at the India House auditorium connected to the Embassy of India in the capital Thimphu. It concluded with poetry reading sessions by five poets from Bhutan and India – Kynpham Sing, CP Surendran, Sarnath Banerjee, Kunzang Choden and Tashi Pem. ...cont´d

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