This year marks the 70th anniversary of Atomic Bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In this occasion, the Japan Foundation, New Delhi would like to hold an event where anybody can express their emotions through Hindi poets, from the inspiration of one book “When I was a child” , written by those who were children at the time, expressing their sufferings and sorrows of those days.

The event is Open to Everyone.

Please feel free to come and present your own Hindi poems. Hindi poets who have visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki will also join the program, to express their messages for peace through their works.

We will record the poems expressed by the participants to upload in YouTube, so we can deliver the peace messages from India to Hiroshima and Nagasaki & to the world.

 

Date     :  9th August, 2015

Time    :  18:30 ~

Venue : The Japan Foundation, New Delhi

Entry Free

Photo Credit : Chihiro Iwasaki, The Girl Gazing Ahead, From When I was a Child, 1967.