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Chandigarh
Literary Society holds a Book Reading Session
National Tele24 News
Vinay Kumar
Chandigarh
Chandigarh Literary Society (CLS)
organized a book reading session at Rotary House today. Some of the noted
authors including wife of the Advisor to the Administrator UT Chandigarh, Mrs
Lippi Parida, plastic surgeon and author from Ludhiana, Dr. Jas Kohli,
veterinary doctor and author Dr Rana Preet Gill, and corporate executive,
writer and poet, Mandeep Caur read out excerpts from their respective writings
and interacted with the audience. Advisor to the Administrator, UT Chandigarh
Shri Manoj Kumar Parida, was a special guest of the evening, while former IAS
officer, author and motivational speaker, Vivek Atray wrapped up the
discussions. Lippi Parida is the author of the popular memoir is also an
administrator of the ASIAN LITETARY SOCIETY. She is not only a proloific
writer but a painter too, and receipient of Woman Achiever Award,.She read out
excerpts from her latest novel, ‘If the Blue Lotus Sings’, which is based on a
truly controversial event that took place in Puri, Odisha. She read out
the chapter that brought about the spiritual connect between Guru Nanak and
Sikh religion, which she said is the most modern and universal religion, and
the Lord Jagannath Temple. She however lamented the commercialisation of
the Lord Krishna's name for ulterior motive. Dr Jas Kohli thinks of
himself as a ‘Cosmetic surgeon gone astray’ is a fiction writer, humour poet,
birdwatcher, singer and astronomer. As a writer, he is partial to humour and
his first fiction book entitled, ‘Anything to Look Hot’ which was based on the
life of a plastic surgeon in Bollywood, was published in 2015. He read out excerpts
from his latest book, ‘Lights. Scalpel Romance’ which filled the
hall with laughter. Dr. Rana Preet Gill, a veterinary doctor, writer and
author, with over 115 middles in various leading newspapers that she had been
writing for almost last two years, narrated her first middle about her father's
struggle for education, "Right to Education", which is one of the
essays in her compilation "Finding Julia". Mandeep Caur, a
corporate professional in leadership position in a telecom company related her
discovery of her true self and true love in writing, and started writing
poetry. She recited a poem on winning, from her book "Living to
Winning". Those who attended included Khushwant Singh, Lily Swarn,
Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi Chair Madhav Kaushik, Hardeep Chandpuri, among
others.
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