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Nagaland Literature Festival Highlights Oral Heritage
✍️ EdexLive
🗓 31 Oct 2026, 01:41 AM
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The Nagaland Literature Festival is foregrounding the region's oral heritage, aiming to preserve and celebrate traditional storytelling.
The Nagaland Literature Festival, a key cultural gathering in the northeastern state, has placed oral heritage at the centre of its programme. Organisers emphasise the importance of preserving the region's rich tradition of storytelling, folk songs and spoken narratives that have been passed down through generations.
The festival features sessions where elders, storytellers and scholars share and discuss oral forms, highlighting their role in shaping Nagaland's identity. By providing a platform for these voices, the event seeks to bridge the gap between traditional knowledge and contemporary literary discourse.
Stakeholders hope that the focus on oral heritage will encourage younger audiences to engage with their cultural roots, ensuring that these intangible assets continue to thrive in a rapidly modernising society.
The festival features sessions where elders, storytellers and scholars share and discuss oral forms, highlighting their role in shaping Nagaland's identity. By providing a platform for these voices, the event seeks to bridge the gap between traditional knowledge and contemporary literary discourse.
Stakeholders hope that the focus on oral heritage will encourage younger audiences to engage with their cultural roots, ensuring that these intangible assets continue to thrive in a rapidly modernising society.