Sukumar Choudhuri, the author of many remarkable awarded books and the recipient of ‘Ekhon Kabita’, ‘Mayamegh’, ‘Durer Kheya’, ‘Sahityasetu’ and many other prestigious awards of repute has been invited by Madhya Pradesh Bangla Academy to grace their Literary Festival on 20th April 2008 at Jabalpur.
The Literary festival will be inaugurated in the morn of 20th April 2008, Sunday in the auditorium of Indian Medical Association of Jabalpur to commemorate the 15th years of publication of literary magazine Madhyama by Madhya Pradesh Bangla Academy. Sukumar will recite his selected poems during the proceedings of the literary festival throughout the day.
Sukumar, the prominent poet of 80s further invited to grace legendary 'Bahirbanga Kabita Utsav’ to be held at Jamshedpur on 21st of April 2008.
The day long festival will be inaugurated by Debdoot. DEBDOOT is a prominent Social Welfare Organization of Jamshedpur. They have invited Sukumar, the mainstay of the life force of the 80’s world of Bengali Poetry, to present his selective poems in the evening session of the programme among many poets and dignitaries of Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Bangladesh, Utrtarbanga and Jharkhand. Sukumar Choudhuri is the Creative Editor of Khanan, the Bengali literary journal of our green city, which had been adjudged the Best little Magazine of India in Jalpaiguri Book Fair in the recent past and awarded ‘Munshi Premchand Munshi Award ‘ besides ‘Mahadiganta’ and other awards in its credit.