--- title: "At the Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF), Odisha has decided to launch which event to strengthen dialogue among languages and literature within India and beyond?" description: "At the Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF), Odisha has decided to launch which event to strengthen dialogue among languages and literature within India and beyond?" author: "Austin Dcruz" published: 2022-02-04 updated: 2022-02-04 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/95466/at-the-kalinga-literary-festival-klf-odisha-has-decided-to-launch-which-event-to-strengthen-dialogue-among-languages-and-literature-within-india-and-beyond category: "current affair" tags: ["current affair", "kalinga literary festival", "odisha", "languages and literature"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # At the Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF), Odisha has decided to launch which event to strengthen dialogue among languages and literature within India and beyond? At the Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF), Odisha has decided to [launch](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2461/key-details-of-the-redmi-k60-series-have-leaked-ahead-of-launch) which [event](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/54942/6-tips-for-organising-a-successful-corporate-event) to strengthen [dialogue](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/39094/the-syrian-national-dialogue-congress-was-held-at-where) among [languages](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2191/the-ai-that-meta-promotes-can-translate-spoken-only-languages) and [literature](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/63553/what-are-some-benefits-of-hiring-ghostwriting-services) within India [and beyond](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/336489/testing-strategies-in-java-unit-testing-integration-testing-and-beyond)? \ ## Answers ### Answer by Stuti Gupta > **Odisha chose to create the Bhasha Utsav event during the Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF) to foster conversation among languages and literature inside India and abroad.** The **[Kalinga Literary Festival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinga_Literary_Festival)**, popularly known as KLF, is an **annual literary festival** held in the **Indian city of Bhubaneswar, Odisha**. Rashmi Ranjan Parida is the festival's creator and director. Every year, the festival bestows three literary honors to notable Indian writers: **the Kalinga Literary Award, the Kalinga [International](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/95450/which-indian-movie-won-the-best-film-award-in-the-asian-film-competition-category-in-the-recently-concluded-20th-dhaka-international-film-festival-in-dhaka) Literary Award, and the Kalinga Karubaki Award.** \ ![At the Kalinga Literary Festival (KLF), Odisha has decided to launch which event to strengthen dialogue among languages and literature within India and beyond?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/8e629485-1b9b-46ef-884e-a111e0976281/images/ff9fc622-4b89-415a-9910-0d73669e73d1.png)\ \ Odisha is a state in **India's eastern region.** It is the eighth-largest state in terms of **land area** and **the eleventh-largest in terms of people**. The state boasts [India's](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/95464/on-which-day-unesco-s-world-heritage-centre-has-agreed-to-publish-hindi-descriptions-of-india-s-unesco-world-heritage-sites-on-the-whc-website) third-largest number of **Scheduled Tribes**. It shares borders with West Bengal and Jharkhand to the north, Chhattisgarh to the west, Andhra Pradesh to the south, and [**Telangana**](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/92751/describe-the-beauty-of-telangana) to the southwest. Odisha has a 485-kilometer coastline along the **Bay of Bengal.** The location is also known as Utkala, and it appears in India's national hymn, **'[Jana Gana Mana.](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/33261/why-is-the-indian-national-anthem-always-sung-second-during-any-icc-cricket-match)'** Odia, one of India's Classical Languages, is the state language of Odisha. --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/95466/at-the-kalinga-literary-festival-klf-odisha-has-decided-to-launch-which-event-to-strengthen-dialogue-among-languages-and-literature-within-india-and-beyond Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.