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'''Jashn-e-Adab''' (Sahityotsav)<ref>{{cite web|last1=Adab|first1=Jashn-e|title=Jashn-e-Adab website|url=https://www.jashneadab.org/home.php|accessdate=17 July 2020|website=Jashn-e-Adab website|archive-date=17 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200717092951/https://www.jashneadab.org/home.php|url-status=dead}}</ref> is a society for poetry and literature which has been established in 2012 to promote and preserve the literary heritage of Hindi and Urdu language through ‘Jashn-e-Adab poetry festival’.

The aim of these festivals is to celebrate and cherish the indigenous cultural heritage through [[Mushaira|Mushairas]]- poetry symposiums, [[Ghazal]] singing, [[Dastangoi|Daastangoi]]-conventional way of story telling, [[Play (theatre)|Plays]], [[Bait bazi|Bait-bazi]], [[Kathak]] dance, [[Qawwali|Qwwali]] etc. These festivals have lined up acclaimed writers, poets, theater artists, singers, scholars, journalists and critics from across the globe and generations, and has provided platform to fresh litterateurs along with luminaries.

Jashn-e-Adab (Sahityotsav) has tried to raise awareness towards the contemporary situation of art and literature in society and also on its impact through debates, seminars, paper presentations and panel discussions with dignitaries of different fields. Jashn-e-Adab (Sahityotsav) also organizes book exhibitions and provide the platform for release of books written by budding writers. Jashn-e-Adab also confers annual awards and accolades to the literary dignitaries to celebrate and acknowledge their unabating love & services to any form of literature.
== History ==
Jashn-e-Adab (Sahityotsav) Poetry festivals have been organised in two phases annually as a three-day event each in cities across country wherein Delhi has been the prime centre.<ref>{{Cite web|title=जश्न-ए-अदब के साथ काव्य मनाएगा कैफ़ी आज़मी की जन्म-शताब्दी, कार्यक्रम में होगा काव्य-कैफ़े का आयोजन|url=https://www.amarujala.com/kavya/halchal/jashn-e-adab-2019-in-association-with-amar-ujala-kavya|access-date=2020-07-17|website=Amar Ujala|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Jashn E Adab Poetry Festival Latest News: Current News and Updates on Jashn E Adab Poetry Festival at News18|url=https://www.news18.com/newstopics/jashn-e-adab-poetry-festival/news/|access-date=2020-07-17|website=www.news18.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-02-26|title=Jashn-e-Adab to host its poetry festival from March 1-3|url=https://www.thestatesman.com/cities/delhi/jashn-e-adab-host-poetry-festival-march-1-3-1502734918.html|access-date=2020-07-17|website=The Statesman|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Jain|first=Pavni|date=2019-02-26|title=Jashn-e-Adab to host 8th edition of three-day poetry festival from March 1|url=https://www.indiatvnews.com/lifestyle/books-culture-jashn-e-adab-to-host-8th-edition-of-three-day-poetry-festival-from-march-1-506475|access-date=2020-07-17|website=www.indiatvnews.com|language=en}}</ref> These festivals also witness various sessions of panel discussions to enlighten the audience about the history and the contemporary situation of theatre, films and literature and their role. These sessions are attended and curated by eminent writers, scholars, historians, films and theatre artists from the country and abroad.

=== Notable participants ===

* [[Karan Singh]]
* [[Ashok Chakradhar]]
* [[Abhigyan Prakash]]
* [[Piyush Mishra]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://so.city/delhi/article/the-7th-jashn-e-adab-fest-is-happening-this-weekend-with-piyush-mishra-yashpal-sharma-more|access-date=2020-07-17|website=so.city|title=The 7th Jashn-E-Adab Fest is Happening This Weekend with Piyush Mishra, Yashpal Sharma & More!|date=3 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title='जश्न-ए-अदब 2019' में 'आरंभ है प्रचंड, बोल मस्तकों के झुंड' से समा बांधेंगे पीयूष मिश्रा|url=https://www.amarujala.com/kavya/halchal/famous-writer-piyush-mishra-will-entertain-the-audience-in-jashn-e-adab-2019|access-date=2020-07-17|website=Amar Ujala|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Irshad Kamil]]
* [[Pankaj Tripathi]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=जो लोकल है, वही ग्लोबल है: पंकज त्रिपाठी|url=https://www.amarujala.com/kavya/halchal/discussion-on-presence-of-folk-in-cinema-by-pankaj-tripathi-in-jashn-e-adab-poetry-festival-2019|access-date=2020-07-17|website=Amar Ujala|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Ali Fazal]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=साहित्योत्सव जश्न-ए-अदब के मंच पर छाया 'मिर्जापुर', अभिनेता अली फजल और पंकज त्रिपाठी ने बांधा समां|url=https://www.amarujala.com/photo-gallery/delhi-ncr/pankaj-tripathi-and-ali-fazal-attand-amar-ujala-jash-e-adab-in-jamia-hamdard-campus|access-date=2020-07-17|website=Amar Ujala|language=hi}}</ref>
* [[Gopi Chand Narang|Gopichand Narag]]
* [[Shamim Hanafi|Prof Shamim Hanfi]]
* [[Javed Akhtar]]
* [[Muzaffar Ali]]
* [[Shamsur Rahman Faruqi]]
* [[Nida Fazli]]
* [[Rahat Indori]]
* [[Tom Alter]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=When I met Tom Beach Alter|url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/233709-When-I-met-Tom-Beach-Alter|access-date=2020-07-17|website=www.thenews.com.pk|language=en}}</ref>
* Prof [[Seyed E. Hasnain|Seyed E Hasnain]]
* [[Hariprasad Chaurasia|Padma Bhushan Pt. Sajan Mishra]]
* [[Sunita Rajwar]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Poetry festivals in India]]
[[Category:Literary societies]]

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