Manipur, July 14 -- The Guwahati Grand Poetry Festival Forum has stated that it is organising the region's biggest ever virtual Poetry Reading and Singing contest from Sunday onwards.

The contest is declared open on July 12, coinciding the birthday of Pablo Neruda who is one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, stated a release. Open for young people between the age group of 15 to 35 years with the theme 'Celebrating Life', the contest will be active from Sunday to August 5, it said. The results of the contest will be announced on August 9 on occasion of 'International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples', a day chosen in recognition of the first meeting of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations held in Geneva in 1982, it...