The three-day Samanvay IHC Indian Languages Festival concluded here on Sunday with a call to renew the literary fraternity's commitment to promoting Indian writing. The last day saw three key literary sessions on "Women: Writing the Body", with a panel of Tamil women writers and poets deliberating on the challenges and triumphs of feminist and Dalit writing. The session featured writers P. Sivakami, Kutti Revathi, Malti Maitri, Sukirtharani and Arshia Sattar.

A session on the popularity of Bengali poetry elicited a mixed house, with speakers shedding light on the trends on modern Bengali poetry and predicting its future - which they felt required more talent and encouragement.