...TO ALL THE WOMEN WHO WANT TO FULFIL THEIR DREAMS ! : ILEANA CITARISTI

The International Women's Day was celebrated by ORIENTAL ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS on March 8, 2007 in the auspices of Bhubaneswar Book fair. Books written by eminent Women Writers, Dancers, Performers, Artists and Activists of India and abroad had been displayed in the Pavilion of the Academy for the occasion. Biographies and Autobiographies of eminent Women like Hope against Hope(Nadezhda Mandelstam), Living History-Memoirs(Hillary Rodham Clinton), My Girlhood, Dwikhondito, All that Darkness(Taslima Nasrin), Selective Memories (Sobha De), The Diaries of Virginia Woolf, Paula(Isabel Allende), All Said and Done, The Prime of Life, Force of Circumstance, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter(Simone de Beavoir), Earthly Paradise,My Mother's House(Colette), Curriculum Vitae(Muriel Spark), Daddy, We Hardly knew you(Germaine Greer), Kafka's Milena(Jana Cerna), Dancing in the Family(Sukanya Rehman), I know why The Caged Bird Sings, All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes, Gather Together in my Name, The heart of a Woman, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry like Christmas (Maya Angelou), The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Life With Picasso(Francoise Gilot & Carlton Lake) etc. included in the collection.

The eminent Classical Dancer Ms Ileana Citaristi graced the pavilion on the occasion of International Womens' Day, and showed lot of interest in the collections and activities of the Academy. While expressing her solidarity with the Academy, she wished all Women of the World to get their dreams fulfilled on that eventful day.