"The significance and relevance of the festival in the current political situation, where tongues of writers are plucked away,is exemplary and beyond explanation," he said after inaugurating the festival.
In his keynote address, Padma Vibhushanrecipient Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev said he was glad to see thatliterary festivals were picking up like never before.
"Many young people are moving from 140 characters to literature. Languageis an intricate and phenomenal expression of the human mind and literature is a wonderful expression of it".
Sashi Kumar launched Sadhguru's latest New York Times, Washington Post and Amazon bestselling book - 'Inner Engineering- a Yogi's Guide to Joy.'
Jaggi Vasudev said the aim of the book was to help make joy one's constant companion.
"To make that happen, this book offersyou not a sermon, buta science; not a teaching, but a technology; not a precept,but a path. All our other titles are inspirational. This book is transformational," he claimed.
Nearly 300 writers of national and intemational repute will participate in the four day events of the Festival.
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