Workshop by Sahita Akademi award winner commences in Vadodara

VADODARA: A three-day workshop on ‘creativity, short story and appreciation’ by

Sahitya Akademi

award winner and well-known Gujarati litterateur professor

Suman Shah

commenced in Vadodara on Tuesday.


The workshop is being organized by city-based SaMvitti Foundation which is devoted to the empowerment of women in literary and artistic fields through capacity-development programs, story-sharing project and several other literary activities.

On the first day of this workshop, Shah deliberated on the concept and application of creativity in literature and arts.

He highlighted that the power to create something new is given by nature to all living beings, including birds and animals. “Creative power is as essential as the capacity for logical thinking or imagination that we possess because only creative power leads to the invention of ideas or products that are new and unheard of. The outcome of genuine creativity in arts is a feeling of pleasure felt both by the one who has created the art as well as the one who is appreciating it,” said Shah.

At the end of the first day of the workshop, a motivational film was screened to demonstrate the process and elements of creativity. Many women from diverse backgrounds participated in this workshop and interacted with Shah.