December 2000
The literary gathering ‘Dialogue’ was held on 30 December. One of the most eminent Hindi fiction writers of the era, and editor of ‘Hans’, Rajendra Yadav presided over the meet and read out one of his stories. He also released Rajesh Jain’s novel ‘Bandh Vadh’. Ashok Vajpeyi was the most honoured poet of the evening. Other well-known poets of the evening were : Laxmi Shankar Vajpeyi (Hindi), Seema Quasim (English) and Shahid Mahuli (Urdu). Chander Prakash Prabhakar read out Hindi translation of some Burmese poems.

January 2001
The literary meet ‘Dialogue’ was held on 27 January . Madhavan Kutty, a Malayalam fiction writer, presided
over the meet and read out a part
of his novel.
Manglesh Dabral, the renowned
Hindi poet, was the Chief Guest
whose Sahitya Academy Award
was celebrated.
Yariv Ovadia, Cultural Secretary of Israel Embassy, read out two Hebrew poems in English translation. Vinod Sharma read out Yehuda Amicha’s Hebrew poems in Hindi translation,
and Ajeet Cour read Punjabi translations of the same.
Other well-known poets of the evening
were : Prayag Shukla (Hindi), Seemab Sultanpuri (Urdu), Har Prasad
Dass (Oriya). Mr. Kumar Kaustab read out Hindi translations of Pushkin’s love poems.

February 2001
The literary meet ‘Dialogue’ was held on 24 February. Eminent Hindi fiction writer Himanshu Joshi presided over the ‘Dialogue’ and read out one of his stories.
H.E. Janab Mostafa Faruque Mohammad, High Commissioner of Bangladesh in India, was the Chief Guest of the evening. Eminent Hindi poet Kailash Vajpeyi read out his new poems. Other well-known poets of the evening were : Shahpar Rasool (Urdu), Sati Kumar (Hindi), Jasbir Kaur (Punjabi), and Meena Chopra (English).
Chander Prabha Pandey read out Hindi translations of Kazi Nazrul Islam’s
poems in Hindi.

March 2001
The literary meet ‘Dialogue’ was held on March 31. Eminent Hindi poet, Ashok Vajpeyi, presided over the meet and
read out his poems.
Vinod Sharma’s book of prose – ‘Apne
Samay Mein Jeena’ – was released by
Ashok Vajpeyi who spoke very highly of the vision presented in Vinod Sharma’s book.
Uma Vasudev read her short story in English.
Other well-known poets of the evening were : Shaharyar and Jamila Bano Gupta (Urdu),
Raj Kumar Saini (Hindi),
and Manmohan (Punjabi).
Satya Bhushan Verma read out his Hindi translations of Japanese poems.