Fifteen years of Jashn-e-Adab. Sunday’s Delhi programme still has Sufi, bansuri and a cinema conversation live.

Jashn-e-Adab marks fifteen years with a four-day literature, music and performing-arts festival in Delhi. Sunday, 23 August, is still live on the programme.

The Sahityotsava runs from 21 to 24 August at the India International Centre and the India Habitat Centre. The locked bill includes poetic symposia, panel discussions, dastangoi, classical and ghazal singing, qawwali, Sufi and folk music, classical dance and instrumental performances. Two venues and four days are the frame. This desk will not invent a ticket price, a sponsor list, or a seating capacity the tip does not give.

Opening day, 21 August, at the India International Centre Multipurpose Hall carried the inaugural, the ‘Yuva Bahaar’ youth symposium, Padma Shri Surender Sharma, a Mohan Veena jugalbandi by Padma Bhushan Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt with Pandit Abhishek Mishra on tabla, and Rajasthani folk by Padma Shri Ustaad Anwar Khan. Those are the opening-day names on the card. A Padma citation beside a name is a recognition tag. It is not a review of the evening.

Saturday, 22 August, held dastangoi, instrumental work, classical, semi-classical and ghazal singing, Odissi, Bharatanatyam and Kathak, and a closing mehfil-e-qawwali by Rais Anis Sabri. Storytelling, three classical dance forms and a qawwali mehfil are the Saturday nouns. This desk will not invent a raga order or a dance repertoire title beyond the forms named.

Sunday, 23 August — live today on this paper — is the day still under the masthead. The locked programme names Sufi and qawwali by Saleem Hasan Chishti; a conversation between Piyush Mishra and Sanket Upadhyay; bansuri by Padma Shri Pandit Ronu Majumdar; and a cinema-to-web-series discussion with Manu Rishi Chadha and Nirupama Kotru. Sufi voice, a writers’ conversation, bansuri and a screen-writing panel are today’s public map. The festival continues through Monday, 24 August. This cutting is distinct from the already-shipped Sowcar Janaki obituary. A living festival and an obituary are two cards.

New Delhi holds both halls. The India International Centre and the India Habitat Centre are the geography. Fifteen foundation years are the anniversary line. This desk will not lift a performance photograph from a news-agency frame. If an official festival still is not honestly available, the cutting ships on hook and body alone.

The public interest on a culture card is narrow and practical. A reader who wants Sunday’s halls needs the names, the venues and the live-today flag. A reader who wants the anniversary needs the fifteenth-year line and the four-day window. A reader who wants Saturday’s close needs Rais Anis Sabri’s mehfil-e-qawwali and the three classical dance forms. This desk will not invent Monday’s full bill beyond the locked 21-to-24 August span, and it will not invent a crowd figure for either centre.

Until Monday closes the four-day map, the public ledger is a fifteenth-year Jashn-e-Adab Sahityotsava from 21 to 24 August, twin venues at the India International Centre and the India Habitat Centre, an opening day with Surender Sharma, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt’s Mohan Veena jugalbandi and Anwar Khan’s Rajasthani folk, a Saturday of dastangoi, classical dance and Rais Anis Sabri’s qawwali, and a Sunday still live with Saleem Hasan Chishti, Piyush Mishra in conversation with Sanket Upadhyay, Ronu Majumdar’s bansuri, and a cinema-to-web-series panel with Manu Rishi Chadha and Nirupama Kotru. Literature and music share the halls. Today’s programme is what the paper carries while the festival runs.