Nalanda Literature Festival 2025

OBJECTIVE

The National Literature Festival with the central theme of Language, Literature and Legacy, aims to celebrate and promote the rich linguistic and cultural legacy of India, with special emphasis on Bihar and the North-Eastern states. It seeks to highlight how dialects like Bajjika, Angika, Magahi, Maithili, and Bhojpuri reflect the socio-cultural,The National Literature Festival with the central theme of Language, Literature and Legacy, aims to celebrate and promote the rich linguistic and cultural legacy of India, with special emphasis on Bihar and the North-Eastern states. It seeks to highlight how dialects like Bajjika, Angika, Magahi, Maithili, and Bhojpuri reflect the socio-cultural, Tibeto-Burman, Tai-Kadai, and Indo-Aryan language families, and major tongues like Assamese, Bodo, Mizo, Manipuri, Khasi, and Nagamese. The influence of Buddhism on Tibetan literature, the value of tribal languages in preserving identity, and the significance of ancient inscriptions will be explored. The Festival also aims to discuss the role of technology in preserving and promoting regional languages through Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, voice interfaces, and digital archives, ensuring these vibrant languages remain relevant in the modern age.The National Literature Festival is envisioned as a pathbreaking, large-scale initiative aimed at preserving, promoting, and digitally empowering the diverse linguistic and cultural heritage of India, with special focus on the North-Eastern states. At its core, the Festival seeks to usher in a new era of AI- and IT-driven language revitalization by applying NLP, speech recognition, and smart technologies to tribal and regional languages of the North-East such as Bodo,Khasi, Mizo, Manipuri (Meitei), Nagamese, and Arunachali tongues. The project aims to explore the feasibility of developing indigenous AI models, chatbots, machine translators, and voice-based interfaces for these languages, ensuring their inclusion in the digital future.The Festival will support the creation of digital archives, oral history repositories, and interactive platforms for folklore, proverbs, songs, and literature from North-Eastern communities. It will emphasize the development of large language datasets and annotated corpora essential for building robust AI tools for lesser-documented languages.Parallelly, the event will explore the rich dialectical traditions of Bihar—including Bhojpuri, Maithili, Magahi, Bajjika, Angika, and Surjapuri—and study how folk traditions, oral literature, and poetic forms can be technologically preserved and globally disseminated. The Festival aims to be a national movement—uniting scholars, technologists, cultural leaders, and policymakers—to build a digital infrastructure for India’s linguistic diversity, with the North-East as the epicenter of a new AI-powered cultural renaissance.

ACTIVITY LIST

Canvas Painting | Sketching | Sculpture Art | Embroidery & Applique work | Madhubani Painting | Wood Inlay | Lacquer Ware (Box – Art with motifs) | Stone Art | Sikki Work |Papier – Mache Art
LIVE DISPLAY OF CULINARY CUISINES OF ENTIRE BIHAR & NORTH EAST
DISPLAY OF ETHNIC & CONTEMPORARY ARTS & CRFAT ITEMS
FOLK DANCE

(OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES)
LIVE HANDICRAFT WORKSHOPS AND DISPLAY OF ETHNIC AND CONTEMPORARY ARTS AND CRAFT ITEMS.
APART FROM THIS, THE ACTIVITIES OF CULTURAL LEGANCY OF BIHAR & NORTH EAST WOULD BE DISPLAYED LIVE WORKSHOPS ON LOCAL ART FORMS – HANDICRAFTS
PHOTO EXHIBITION ON INCREDIBLE INDIA WITH CULTURE &TOURISM BRAND

DAY 2 - 22nd DECEMBER 2025

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DAY 3 - 23rd DECEMBER 2025

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DAY 4 - 24th DECEMBER 2025

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DAY 5 - 25th DECEMBER 2025