Perinthalmanna to host travel literature festival

Malayalam writer Benyamin will curate the travel literature festival to be held on November 14, 2026, at the Town Hall in Perinthalmanna.

Roads may connect places, but the stories they leave behind connect people. Celebrating these journeys and experiences, writer Benyamin will curate a travel literature festival at the Town Hall in Perinthalmanna on Saturday (November 14, 2026).

The festival, Travelit 26, is being organised by Valluvanadan Samskarika Vedi, Angadipuram. It will bring together writers, travellers and cultural figures under the theme ‘Stories told by roads and people’. V. Musafar Ahmed, who has completed 40 years as a writer and traveller, will be felicitated at the event.

Najeeb Kanthapuram, MLA, will inaugurate the day-long festival, with Mr. Benyamin presiding over the function. Perinthalmanna municipal chairperson Pacheeri Surayya Farooq, block panchayat president Najma Tabsheera, and Cherukad Trust chairman V. Sasikumar will be guests.

Writer Zakaria will deliver the keynote address on ‘Malayali’s travels’. This will be followed by a session titled ‘Suhra’s view of Everest’. Nisar Iltumish, Shruthin Lal and Sooraj Rajesh Chelatt will take part in a discussion titled ‘New worlds seen by vloggers’.

The afternoon sessions will feature Saji Marcos’s ‘Gulag stories’ and a session on ‘Solo travels’, during which Swapna Ibrahim, Hiba A. Samad and Maina Umaiban will share their experiences.

Writers E. Santhosh Kumar, G.R. Indugopan, and Lijish Kumar will participate in a discussion titled ‘Literary travellers’. Nisha P.R. will present ‘A global journey through circus tents’. Another major attraction will be a conversation between Mr. Benyamin and V. Musafar Ahmed.

Writers Rafeeq Ahmed, Shihabuddin Poythumkadav and P. Raman will release books at the valedictory session, which will be followed by a ghazal evening.