Ministry of Tribal Affairs will organise a two-day National Tribal Literary Festival beginning today at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi. The Literary Festival is being held as part of the celebrations commemorating Janjatiya Gaurav Divas 2026. The festival aims to provide a national platform for celebrating India’s rich and diverse tribal literary traditions, promoting indigenous languages and oral narratives, and recognising the contributions of tribal writers, poets, storytellers and knowledge holders.

The inaugural session will be attended by Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram. Tribal Affairs Ministry said in a statement that the Festival aligns with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of Viksit Bharat@2047 by recognising the knowledge, languages and cultural contributions of tribal communities as vital to India’s inclusive, knowledge-driven and culturally rooted development. It will bring together tribal writers, poets, authors, researchers, linguists, academicians and cultural practitioners from across the country to celebrate the diversity of tribal literary heritage.