The inaugural service, Flight AI1111, departed from Varanasi's Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport at 9:23 am, carrying passengers who will connect through Delhi to international destinations including Dubai, Colombo, Jeddah, Riyadh, Kathmandu and Phuket

The two-day festival, which concluded on Sunday at Hotel Himalaya in Lalitpur, was centered on the theme "Beyond Borders: South Asian Literature in a Changing World: Towards the Imagination of a Shared Future".