Vatayan : Poetry on South Bank was inaugurated by Dr Satyendra Srivastva, former Reader at the Cambridge University, on Friday, the 28th of November 2003 and on the very same day, its first Goshthi took place (William Blake’s Birthday) in the foyer of the Royal Festival Hall at the South Bank, London. Last year, Javed Akhtar and Prasoon Joshi from Mumbai were awarded by Lord Desai and Baroness Fla
ther along with Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhtar was also honoured with the Life Time Achievement Award in the same ceremony. Vatayan has presented several eminent poets/poetic evenings since its inception in 2004 including Javed Akhtar, Neeraj, Balswarup Rahi, Ashok Chakradhar, Mangal Naseem, Mohan Rana, Alka Sinha, Sarvesh Saksena, Sohan Rahi, Usha Varma, Amarjit Chandan, Naresh Shandilya, Shail Agrawal, Sita Sagar, Dr Budhinath Misra, Acharya Sarathi, Prof Pushpita, Keshri Nath Tripathi, Dr Nikhil Kaushik, Susham Bedi, Harish Naval and the late Shailendra Srivastava in the past. http://youtu.be/wQRhgaAlQbA (Javed Akhtar)
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http://youtu.be/4Mk9yVIdcFI (prasoon Joshi)
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