Mangalore, September 15: Karnataka Beary Sahitya Academy will be organising a two day state level 'Beary Convention' on December 10 and 11 at Town Hall here.
Announcing this at a press conference here on Thursday, M B Abdul Rahman, the Chairman of the Academy, said as many as 10 thousand people including 1500 representatives of various Beary organisations from across the country and abroad are expected to participate in the convention, to be held under the leadership of former state education minister B A Moideen.
He said the convention would be comprised of various sessions including debate, poets-meet, face-to-face with litterateurs, felicitation, exhibition, food festival and culture show.
Kannada and English literary works of senior writers like Dr Sushila P Upadhyaya and Prof B M Ichlangodu, on Beary language, culture, history and lifestyle will be released in the convention, he said.
Mr Rahman said social thinkers, religious leaders and noted personalities would discuss and exchange their views about Beary language, literature, culture, and problems of education, employment and challenges faced by women in Beary community.
Explaining the achievements of newly found academy, he said, as many as 56 programmes have been conducted in different parts of Karnataka and outside, by the Beary academy, within a span of 23 months after its establishment.
The Chairman said the Beary convention is being organised in Mangalore after a long gam. The first Beary convention was held in city in 1998.
Registrar of the Academy Umarabba, members Raheem Uchil, SP Umar Farooq and P Mohammed were present at the press meet.
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