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[[File:TGILF jpeg.jpg|thumb|The Great Indian Literary Festival logo]]

'''The Great Indian Literary Festival''' or '''TGILF''' is India's only regional literary platform with global footprint.

Founded by famous international author-poet [[Amit Shankar]], TGILF focuses on regional literature and its integration with global writing.<ref>{{cite web|title=Integration with global writing|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFowrgvN3EQ}}</ref>

Committed to the cause of promoting native language; both nationally and internationally, it focuses on providing a platform to promote regional writing, poetry, writers and poets. With focus on Hindi, it has been organising various events, discussions to revive Hindi language and literature.

With luminaries as Padma Shri Prof. Dinesh Singh<ref name="chancellor">{{Citation|title=Dinesh Singh (academic)|date=2021-01-28|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dinesh_Singh_(academic)&oldid=1003310780|work=Wikipedia|language=en|access-date=2021-02-19}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Chancellor {{!}} K.R. Mangalam University|url=https://www.krmangalam.edu.in/chancellor|access-date=2021-02-19|website=www.krmangalam.edu.in}}</ref> and Shri Sudesh Verma, National Spokesperson, BJP, as Patrons, it strives promoting regional writing and writers as it believes that the soul of a nation resides in its regional expressions. This Literature Festival primarily focusses on the literature from the states of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Odisha and Bihar and Madhya Pradesh.

It is an annual literary festival that is punctuated by smaller pan-India events, promoting poetry, writing and literature.

Its maiden edition was held in the Indian city of Udaipur in March, 2017.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Great Indian Literary Festival|url=http://www.tgilf.co.in/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Venue of the festival|url=https://allevents.in/udaipur/the-great-indian-literary-festival/409544742711608}}</ref>

== The Festival ==

SInce its inception, it has held four large and 6 smaller events.<ref>{{Cite web|title=TGILF Archives|url=https://creativeyatra.com/tag/tgilf/|access-date=2020-10-19|website=Creative Yatra|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-04-23|title=A Stage for Literary Luminaries {{!}} Suburb|url=https://www.suburblive.in/events/in-house-events/a-stage-for-literary-luminaries/|access-date=2021-02-19|language=en-US}}</ref>

Its latest session, Season 4 was held in January 2021 which had participation from Romania, Hungary.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-01-13|title=Regional By Design, Global By reach {{!}} Suburb|url=https://www.suburblive.in/events/partnership-events/regional-by-design-global-by-reach/|access-date=2021-02-19|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-01-10|title=4th EDITON OF TGILF-INDIA’s ONLY REGIONAL LITERATURE FESTIVAL FOR TWO DAYS FROM 9th-10th JAN|url=https://www.globalgovernancenews.com/4th-editon-of-tgilf-indias-only-regional-literature-festival-for-two-days-from-9th-10th-jan/|access-date=2021-02-19|website=Global Governance News|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-01-21|title=Converge, An Indo-Hungarian Poetry Rendezvous {{!}} Suburb|url=https://www.suburblive.in/art-culture/performing-arts/converge-an-indo-hungarian-poetry-rendezvous/|access-date=2021-02-19|language=en-US}}</ref>

It held a global poetry conclave, Love, Light, Life on 14 February 2021. This event had poets from the USA, Italy, Romania, Sri Lanka, The Philippines and India.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Redazione|date=2021-02-15|title=La poesia salverà il mondo|url=https://www.madonielive.com/2021/02/15/la-poesia-salvera-il-mondo/|access-date=2021-02-19|website=MadonieLive.com|language=it-IT}}</ref>

==External links==
* [https://www.tgilf.com TGILF website]

==See also==
* [https://creativeyatra.com/tag/tgilf/ Creative Yatra]

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

The Great Indian Literary Festival - Revision history

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