HARIDWAR, Dec. 30 -- The second day of the Haridwar Literature Festival began with a thoughtful and introspective session titled "From Prem Bhanwar to Sthitpragya." The keynote speaker was former Director General of Police of Uttarakhand, Anil Raturi.

During the session, Raturi remarked that creativity is not easy to fully comprehend, but a person with a trained and sensitive literary perspective can better understand its deeper layers. Describing love as the highest ideal human capacity, he said that love has the power to transform an individual from within.

He also shared personal anecdotes from his years in the police service. In his address, he emphasised that the final evaluation of any literary work rests not with the author but w...