Among the many events planned for their 20th anniversary, Toto Funds the Arts had organised Words Matter, to celebrate creative writing. On the occasion, winners of the TOTO Award for Creative Writing in English and Kannada, Aparna Chivukula and Dadapeer Jyman respectively, gave selected readings of their work.
The evening also saw poet K. Satchidanandan and novelist Anjum Hasan engage in a discussion which traversed the role of poetry and language in the areas of modernism, democracy and creativity. Their talk traversed large swathes of the literary landscape which included the likes Sartre and Camus as well as Kabir and Akka Mahadevi.
