A soul in tension that's learning to fly
Conditions grounded but determined to try
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied twisted, just an Earth bound misfit, I
Literati - the signature literary festival of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi - has grown into one of the largest gatherings of its kind, thronged to by the erudite, glib and logoleptic masses whose numbers would exceed the word count of a small novella. Organised annually by the Board of Student Publications, this first post-jubilee edition marks a radical departure from tradition, custom, expectation and even reality.
Conditions grounded but determined to try
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied twisted, just an Earth bound misfit, I
Straight out of a neo-noir graphic novel, Literati 2011 offers, through a very potent rush of blood to the head, to capture and enmesh the contemporary irreverent, tempestuous, aggressive, ambitious, egotistical, debonair and combative ethos into a celebratory surrealist montage and through this dare go where no LitFest has gone before.
So it has been written. So it shall be done. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, join in, and someday you'll be famous, just like what's-his-name.
