Saudha International Literature Festival|Love Lust & Longing |UK Parliament
Schedule
Thu Dec 04 2025 at 05:30 pm to 07:30 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Houses of Parliament | London, EN
The festival preaches the art and beauty of imagination, languages from different cultural heritages through talks, reading, performances.About this Event
Sponsored by Alex Sobel MP, this session of Saudha International Literature Festival is happening in Committe Room 11 of UK's Parliament House ( The Palace of Westminister) on Thursday 4 December from 17:30 to 19:30.
The session will feature some extremely powerful verses on love, lust and longing by both contemporary and ancient poets, writers and philosophers through some haunting performances and music preentations. The session will also launch an acclamied and widely researched book called Tale of Tawaif editted by one of finest Indian classical vocalists based in the UK Chandra Chakraborty.
The access to the room is through Cromwell Green entrance and the audiences were advised to allow at least 20/30 minutes for security check prior to the event. So best to be there by 5pm for the event starting at 5:30pm.
For direction etc please ring on 07828190551.
Saudha’s critically acclaimed literature Festival that contemplates on re-reading/ re-interpreting the works of literary giants of the world and explores the philosophical insights on many unconventional literary themes and movements through reading, performances, poetry-theatres, talks etc.
Saudha Society of Poetry and Indian Music ( www.saudha.org ) is a leading platform for South Asian as well other global classical arts. Saudha is critically acclaimed for its series of experimental productions merging poetry, music and painting seamlessly so that each can complement each other.Saudha attracted a diverse source of audiences from all different heritages through its series of presentations of mingling and bridging different arts from different corners of the world as the way of interpreting each other. Saudha's productions Frida Kahlo Through Indian classical music and the the last one called Songs of Sringar and Seduction at the Royal Albert Hall have been highly praised by prominent ethno-musicologists, music and literature connoisseurs of the city and beyond.Saudha's lyrics of Love at the SouthBank Centre and at Edinburgh Fringe and Chayanaut through Sebastian Bach at the House of Commons, Taste of Twilight at ICCR, Kolkata and the Welsh Parliament were critically acclaimed by major media and musicologists.During Covid, Saudha took the first ever and historic initiative to connect leading musicians of the globe, writers, poets, painters and filmmakers from all across the world through virtual platforms and the sessions were hugely appreciated by the audiences from all around the globe
Where is it happening?
Houses of Parliament, 9748 Abingdon Street, London, United KingdomGBP 0.00
