New Delhi: World Book Day, also known as World Book and Copyright Day, or International Day of the Book, is an annual event organized by the United Nations Educational Scienific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to promote reading, publishing and copyright. The first World Book Day was celebrated on 23 April in 1995, and continues to be recognized on that day.
“Books have the power to transport us to new worlds and different times, but they can also take us back to the important moments in our own lives. Many of us have special memories of the books that have inspired us, and have learned the profound effect that reading the right book can have at the right moment. From building your vocabulary to reducing stress, preventing age-related cognitive decline and increasing your ability to empathize, reading books is an easy way to look after your mind and body,” said Sandeep Marwah President of AAFT University in a webinar organised to celebrate World Book Day in association with ICMEI.
During all these months when all of us have seen periods of confinement and people have had to limit their time spent outside, books have proved to be powerful tools to combat isolation, reinforce ties between people, expand our horizons, while stimulating our minds and creativity. This pandemic has revived the habit of reading books,” added Sandeep Marwah while mentioning Sewa Ram Marwah Library at Marwah Studios.
Asian Academy of Arts Celebrated Ten Years at Marwah Studios
New Delhi: The most active cultural promotional organizations like Asian Academy of Arts have come down to halt. No events, no interactions, no shows, no dramas, music and dance recitals. Covid 19 the Corona virus has changed the whole scene. National Lockout will not permit anyone to move to any entertainment centre neither it is safe to be there. Social distancing is the key word today and what will happen after lockout is another question in the mind.
Asian Academy of Arts has completed ten years from the date of its inception way back in 2010 when Miss Universe 2010 Ximena Navarrete from Mexico at Marwah Studios, inaugurated this Art promotion organization in a grand function.
“The purpose of the body is to develop and promote all sort of fine arts and performing arts including Writing & Literature, Music & Singing, Dance & Choreography, Painting and Sculpture and Drama. We are lucky that in all these ten years we have not only touched but excel in all these arts,” said Dr. Sandeep Marwah President of Asian Academy of Arts.
Promotion of arts is a rule at Marwah Studios. Every major event must have a special space for these art forms be it a Global Festival of Journalism, Global Fashion Week, Global Film Festival, International Festival of Cellphone Cinema, AAFT Festival of Short Films or any other.
Two major festivals Global Literary Festival and International Sufi Festival are directly under Asian Academy of Arts. Delhi Art Festival, Jashan E Hind are two more high profiled festivals where Asian Academy of Arts is partners with.
Asian Academy of Arts has created 196 international and 37 National committees and developed a wonderful relations with more than 50 countries of the World and keep on inviting people from these countries to have dance recitals, music recitals, dramas, painting and sculpture exhibitions, talks and workshops at the campus of Marwah Studios and around Delhi.
“We are associated with more than 5000 events, 600 different art and culture organizations and supporting them in fulfilling their and our dreams including All India Fine And Crafts Society, Indira Gandhi National Centre For Arts, National School of Drama, Hindi Sahitya Academy, Rabindra Bhawan, Spicmacay and Modern Art Gallery. We make 120 events round the year to promote art and culture from India and abroad,” added Dr. Sandeep Marwah.
Dr. Sandeep Marwah has been honored many times on National and International platforms for being one of the prominent art promoters from India. He has been titled as Global Cultural Minister many times. Now he is also the President of AAFT School of Performing Arts a degree college of higher education in art Forms.
New and innovative ways have to be devised soon to reach to the people with Indian and foreign art and culture. We are on the job, team is working and soon we will be back with big drums Marwah condensed with new enthusiasm.
Session on Women at 5th Global Literary Festival Noida 2019
Noida: “We have always believed that women play a very important part in every segment of life. Not only they are half of the populations but they share equally and add quality to every business of life,” said Dr. Sandeep Marwah President 5th Global Literary Festival Noida 2019 introducing the women guests in a program organized by International Women’s Film Forum of ICMEI.
A discussion on creative approach of Women in today’s challenging world was attended by Anupam Acharya a Motivational Speaker & Author, Pushp Dahya Founder of Gurgaon Helping Hands, Arushi Nishank Classical Dancer & Filmmaker, Suniti Wadhwa Indian Politician, Rajshri Singh IPS, IGP State Crime Branch gave a great food for thought to the entire gathering.
The esteemed dignitaries launched the Poster of “Dream” by Ritu Bhagat and the Book- Kahi Unkahi on this occasion. Dr. Sandeep Marwah honored and presented participation certificates along with festival mementos to twenty-five best working women of the city for their contribution to the society.
Women Were Honored And Presented With Memento of 5th GLFN
“We are lucky to have almost footfall of sixteen thousand people in two days where 52 events have been planned in three days and 54 countries are in total participating directly and indirectly in this festival. Every segment, every hall is full of young and old writers and enthusiastic people from all over India and abroad. We thank you all for your participation,” said Dr. Sushil Bharti festival director of 5th GLFN.
Health And Literature Session at 5th Global Literary Festival Noida
Noida: It’s a old proverb that ‘You Are What You Eat and You Are what You Think’. Your physical and mental health is in your own hands. Literary festivals are the best way to remind, learn and revise best of the written materials in life time.,” said H.E. Gonchig Gambold Ambassador of Monogolia to India and a popular writer in Mongolia on the second day of 5th Global Literary Festival Noida 2019.
“I are thankful to H.E. Gonchig Gambold for nominating me as the chair of Indo Mongolia Film And Cultural Forum created recently. Ambassador understands very well the importance of literature in culture exchange as he has translated many books from Mongolia to Hindi and vice versa. It is important to know your own culture but its always nice to know the culture of other countries too,” said Dr. Sandeep Marwah President of 5th GLFN.
H.E. Gonchig Gambold, Ambassodor of Mongolia to India, Padma Shri Shovna Narayan renowned Classical Dancer, TV Journalist Yasser Usman, Anita Dua Yoga Expert & Educationist and Ashok Tyagi, Secretary General ICMEI were the part of the session- ‘Health And Literature’.
During the session A book “Illuminating Indian Classical Dance through Yoga” written by Shovna Narayan & Anita Dua was released by the dignities. A Poster to pay gratitude to Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya, a statesman, a politician, a journalist and a writer was launched. News Bulletin made by the students of ASMS portraying the activities of day one was also released from the stage during this event.
Dr. Sandeep Marwah honored and presented participation certificates and memento of the festival to all the distinguished people present on the stage.
5th Global Literary Festival Noida 2019 at Marwah Studios
Noida: The day 2 began with a seminar on the significance of Poetry in advancement of Human Rights. Creativity started flowing on the recitation of poetry by professional and non-professional writers. The audience enjoyed to its best.
“If you want to remain in media then three things which you have to keep in mind are that you must read, you must write and you must speak well. Keep on upgrading the level of these three things and you will be considered a better media person and also a better writer,” said Dr. Sandeep Marwah President of 5th Global Literary Festival on the first session of second day.
Dr. Amit Kaur Puri Writer, Sajia Shojaei Filmmaker, Deepali Kumbhare Educationist, Deepa Gupta Director G L Bajaj Institute, Indu Anand Educationist, Satya Dev Rai Writer expressed their views and spoke about their works.
The dignities on the stage also launched the Book- ‘Himadrija’ written by Satya Dev Rai. A Book Cover of “Believer The Achiever” authored by Dr. Amit Kaur Puri was also released on this occasion.
Kavi Samelan During 5th Global Literary Festival Noida 2019
Noida: The first day of 5th Global Literary festival Noida 2019 was more bubbling than the expectation of organizers. The whole day it was all the programs were well attended by people from all over India and abroad.
“Kavi Samelan by renowned media persons and well known writers added more creativity to the current affairs.” We have invited genious from all over India to give all of us a new taste of literature. Young and old writers and new writers have added new energy to this grand show,” said Dr. Sandeep Marwah President of the festival.
Pt. Shivanand Director Sanskrit Akademi, Prem Bhardwaj,’Gyan Bhiksu’, renowned Poet Rama Singh, Rana Yashwant Managing Editor India News and seasoned Poet Divik Ramesh were the perfect attraction of the day appreciating the great poetic works through poetry recitation.Dignitaries also launched the Book- Aag bhi hai aur Paani bhi written by Sushil Bharti during this event.
Day one also witnessed various interactive sessions and discussions like Harsha Garg talking about non-fiction writing, a discussion on romantic fiction by Ajitabh Bose and Sarika Singh, a literary session on short story writing by Divya Narayan Upadhyaya. Pallavi Prakash sharing insights on non-fiction writing and a literary discussion by Diwakar Goyal were also part of different events in different halls.
An Exhibition of Paintings at 5th Global Literary Festival Noida
Noida: “It is a tradition in Marwah Studios, and we always make it a point to start our every major event with the exhibition of paintings and sculptures to promote fine arts within the campus,” said Dr. Sandeep Marwah introducing the renowned painter and curater Iqbal Krishan at the inauguration of an exhibition of paintings at 5th Global Literary Festival Noida 2019.
“Fifteen known painters from all over India displayed their paintings during this three days powerful exhibition within the Global Literary festival. I am thankful to Sandeep Marwah for his love for paintings, which attracts painters from all over India to be part of these festivals. He is the real promoter of art,” said Iqbal Krishan.
“Exhibition of paintings makes the literary festival a complete show,” said H.E. Pham Sanh Chau Ambassador of Vietnam to India. “Painting is a self discovery, every painter paints what he is exactly,” added H.E. Cdr. K.L.Ganju Honorary Cosul General of Comoros in India.
“The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before,” expressed H.E. Carlos Polo Ambassador of Peru to India. “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time,” said Kamlesh Pandey Bollywood screenwriter while lighting the ceremonial lamp.
The exhibition remained open to general public and thousands of people took the advantage of this exhibition during the 5th Global literary festival.
Kochi: A world record holder of short films Dr. Sandeep Marwah inaugurated a new festival of short digital films under the title ‘Mini Movie Festival’ by Clubby at Kochi in Kerala.
“The digitization and reduction in cost of film making have given many more people to showcase their creativity through films. We need many film promoters to come forward to extend help to young minds to explore their talent through these kind of festivals,” said Dr. Sandeep Marwah President of Marwah Studios while lighting the ceremonial lamp at the inauguration.
“I appreciate the idea of inviting short films in many languages, as the language of cinema is only emotions. Short films give you immense opportunity to project your ideas, capabilities and capacity to make films. A lot can be spoken through these short films. Many new avenues are available to present your short films,” added Dr. Marwah at the festival.
The festival is designed and promoted by Vishnu Surendernath-CEO, Vipin Varada-CPO and Ananthakrishnan-COO with George V. Anthony as their mentor. Renowned film director Padma Shri S. Priyadarshan is Ex Officio Chairperson.
Distinguished film makers and film technicians like Ashok Tyagi, Carl Haber, Jesse V Johnson, Rajit Kapoor, Suresh Eriyat, Beena Paul, Justin Jose, C.K. Murleedharan, Onir, Vasanthbalan, P.F. Mathews, Pandit Ramesh Narain, Rajeev Ravi, Babu Tiruvalla, Anjali Menon, B. Ajit Kumar, P. Balachandran, Prakash Moorthy, M. Madhupal and Manoj George are on the panel of jury.
Clubby is an organization with an idea to create, Connect and Collaborate film makers from all over the World. Films are invited in 10 different language including Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali and English. International Chamber of Media And Entertainment Industry and Marwah Studios will support the event.
Visit of Dr. Sandeep Marwah President AAFT to Budapest-Hungary
Budapest: The Managing Director of NFTC- National Federation of Tourism And Transport Cooperatives of India Limited and Chair for India Skills Development Council Dr. Sandeep Marwah spent 6 days in Budapest to learn the ways and means of the country of Hungary.
It all started with the respect to Indian Embassy and meeting H.E. Kumar Tuhin Ambassador of India to Hungary. An interaction with renowned traveller and consultant Edit Esko and renowned Hungarian Film Maker Ferenc Borbely was learning experience.
Being a Vice President of the first Mobile Film Festival along with Prof. Karl Bardosh of New York University and Yuanyuan Film Finance Consultant from China was another good experience, which followed by press conference.
Spending time with Dr. Phd Robert Richard film and television personality and understanding the international ways of festival also added to the game. An award for being Vice President of the festival was a motivating action too.
Visit to Oktopus Multimedia Institute and joining hands with AAFT added a lot to the trip. Meeting with Filmmaker Jeno Hodi Director of Budapest Film Academy was revival of the contacts.
Meetings with Judith Lazar renowned makeup artists, Zsuzsi actor Dancer, Tibor Kovac former Director Hungarian Cultural Centre, Entz Boldizsar Peter, Abdul Korkut, Steve Kaszi, Journalist Ildi and TV interview by Csilla Temesvari of RTL Club were other events of the trip.
Visiting some unique and popular locations like New York Café, Heritage Hotel Corinthia, Hotel Kempenski, Trofea Grill, Café 57, Café Gerbeaud & Site seeing of the city, ferry ride at river Danube was a great pleasure. Visit to village Szentendre located at the river Danube, a beautiful tourist place, was worth spending whole day.
“Prestigious Media award by film fraternity of Hungary for being Chair for Indo Hungarian Film And Cultural Forum on the last day was a surprise, which was followed by Dinner at Szazeves one of the oldest restaurant in Budapest,” said Dr. Sandeep Marwah Chancellor AAFT University of Media And Arts.
Sandeep Marwah Nominated Vice President of Festival In Hungary
Budapest: Renowned international media personality of India Dr. Sandeep Marwah has been nominated as the Vice President of First Mobile Film Festival of Hungary to be held at Budapest from 18th to 20th March,2019.
“We are privileged to have Dr. Sandeep Marwah as our jury member and we leave it to him to decide and finalize the best films of the country to be awarded under mobile cinema festival,” said Dr. Kiss Robert Richard President of the festival.
“I am feeling honored to be part of first mobile cinema festival of country of Hungary. I am thankful for this opportunity to be the Vice President of the jury along with Prof. Karl Bardosh of New York University and Yuanyuan of Chinese Film Finance Company,” said Dr. Sandeep Marwah President of Marwah Studios.
Dr. Sandeep Marwah is the first one in India to shoot films on mobile around 13 years back and he is the first one in the World to start International Festival of Cellphone Cinema from Marwah Studios. He has already been titled as Father of Cellphone Cinema. He has recently launched his 12th edition of the festival.
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