Keen to know where the Marathi publishing industry is headed or who is guilty of pushing regional writers to the sidewalks? Attend the panel discussions at the first edition of Gateway Litfest, India’s first literary festival to celebrate regional writings. Organised by the prominent Mumbai-based Malayalam literary magazine Kaakka, the inaugural edition will be a two-day affair, taking place over the weekend with panel discussions focussing on seven regional languages: Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya and Tamil.

Govind Nihalani