The Habitat Young Visionary Award has come to Saarang now.

One of the most prestigious youth awards in the country, HYVA entails writing and arguing out your vision about the nation. If you are the next visionary a fully paid summer school to Cambridge awaits you.

Topic: The Change I want to See; The Change I want to Make

Deadline for essay entry: December 15, 2009


Are you the next visionary?


The list of semifinalists for HYVA 2010 can be found here.

The semifinals for the south-zone will be on 20th January in IIT Madras.



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Creative Writing

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by.  How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?  For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone.  That is where the writer scores over his fellows:  he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.

- Vita Sackville-West

Does your heart leap up when you behold a rainbow? Would you write a letter to the world that never wrote to you? If two roads diverged in a wood, would you take the one less travelled by? If yes, then for you, Saarang Creative Writing is the place to be. With categories spanning various genres of writing, an impressive array of judges and fabulous prizes for the winners, the Creative Writing event is the doyen of all literary events at Saarang.

The event will be conducted on three days of Saarang - one day for fiction, another for poetry and the third for a melange of forms and genres. So whether you are a seasoned writer of short stories, an aspiring novelist, a poetic soul or a sultan of experimental writing - this event is the place for you.

Watch this space for details about the various categories and the rules and regulations!