How can literature and culture promote global unity in the face of emerging challenges? What role can poetry play in imagining and shaping collective futures?
Literature and culture can significantly promote global unity and shared futures by fostering mutual understanding, empathy, dialogue, and collaboration among people from different backgrounds, perspectives, and values. Literature and culture can also help us to imagine and shape collective futures, by inspiring us to envision alternative scenarios, possibilities, and solutions for a more sustainable and harmonious world.
The project is part of the subtheme Global unity and shared futures.
Author
Komal Gupta
Komal Gupta is an award-winning Indian writer, creative strategist and social entrepreneur. She writes under the pen name of tejaswiniaura. She is an avid reader with a penchant for the extraordinary and mundane aspects of life. A keen observer of life, words to her are an extension of perceptions. Komal continues to push the boundaries of what defines poetry, writing with her unique style of narration and reflections. She believes in the power of words, arts and culture to change lives and impact society in positive ways.
She is a published author of two poetry books, Verses of Time (2019) and Of Silhouette Words and Moonflowers (2017). Komal is one of the selected women writers in Literoma’s Biography of the Millennium project ‘The Shining Divas of 2020’ showcasing the lives and writing journeys of seven inspiring Indian women writers.
Her Slide Show “The Power of Words” was showcased in Cubbon Park Metro Station under the Wait Time Project by Art in Transit Bangalore in April 2019, an experiment on public interaction with art and literature, and was very well received. Her Digital art was exhibited at the International Roerich Memorial Trust, Manali in 2019. Her poetry was showcased in TEDxWomen Bold and Brilliant 2019 December.
She is a volunteer for TEDxGurugram as a content curator and speaker curator and is committed to the spread of ideas for learning in the community. She also volunteers for non-profit organizations as a content writer, especially in the mental health industry.
