IIW (Inspiring Indian Women) organised an event “Kavya Ras” – Online Kavi Sammelan a first of its kind, presented by Darshana Shah who is a poet herself. It was live on all IIW social media platforms. IIW encouraged budding poets to come and recite on the platform which was much appreciated. A Stupendously successful fantabulous an all women poetry evening, was hosted by Darshana Shah with women poets from USA, Germany, Bahrain, India and of course UK. Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati, Sindhi, Tamil poems echoed the atmosphere too.
It was for the first time, women who wrote but never ever recited before or got busy in family responsibilities or never took it seriously got a platform to express.
Chief Guest was Jai Verma ji, Guest of Honours Ms Mini Narang, Special Guests Ms Indu Barot and Ms Manju Lodha.
Special invitees -Mr Tejendar Sharma, Mr Tarun Kumar (Hindi Attaché) HCIUK, Mr Madhav. Turumella and Mr Ravi Sharma. The session lasted for 3 hrs.
Some of the upcoming poets who participated were Pratibha Pandey, Dhalia Gosh, Vini Kalia, Bhavi Ram, Aditi Tiwari, Garima Kapoor, Medha Sharma Tyagi, Dharti Vasani , Rupali Ravi, Deepika Ganesh, Swati Saxena, Mita Joshi, Purva Joshi, Parin Somani, Sanskriti Sharan and Purvi Virani. Poetries recited were on various topics from life to longing for motherland to romance to love of a mother and loss of a father. Poetries were also recited about self-love and importance of giving time to your own self and how we forget about worldly things.
It was a mesmerising evening with all these topics which left the audience enchanted and even after three hours audience wanted more. Everyone stayed online and no one left despite some poets joining from different time zones.
This event was much appreciated and the motivation behind it was to give chance to upcoming women poets a platform where they can feel comfortable and recite their poetry.
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Fantastic! A poet’s imagination where even Sun doesn’t reach – such is an accolade offered to anyone who can combine thoughts in nice words touching human emotions. Especially when its recited in Hindi, our national language. Very enjoyable