The Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature has a number of mega projects lined up for implementation in the near future. Some of these projects are:

I. Mega Conferences Planned for 2004

For the realization of a Culture of Peace in the region, the Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature plans to organize four Writers Conferences in different nerve centres of the region. The first of these – a SAARC Writers Conference – shall be held in Pakistan in January 2004.
The theme of the Pakistan Conference shall be: ‘Reconciliation and Peace Building: the Role and Relevance of Writers and Intellectuals’ and it shall enlist the participation of writers and peace activists, political vanguard and human rights activists, media persons and academicians, artists and theatre practitioners engaged in peace-building process in the South Asian region, especially between India and Pakistan, whose enmity based on mutual mistrust has led to wars and violence on a large scale the past. In the wake of the Indian Prime Minister Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpeyi extending a friendly hand of peace and cooperation to Pakistan and the gradual improvement of relations between the two countries, the Conference assumes a special significance.

Preparations for the next Pakistan Conference are on. The Foundation has invited eminent writers from the SAARC region and has got their consent regarding participation. The writers from the seven SAARC Countries who shall be participating in the Pakistan Conference are:

(from India) Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Mahasveta Devi, Khushwant Singh, Gulzar, Kamleshwar, Kuldip Nayar, Ashok Vajpeyi, U.R. Ananthamurthy, Nasira Sharma, Nasiruddin Shah with his wife Ratna Pathak Shah and daughter (to enact a play ‘Ismat Apa Ki Kahamiyan’), Abdullah Bismilla, Sitakant Mahapatra, K. Jayakumar, Reoti Saran Sharma, Shaharyar, Ramkumar Mukhopadhyaya, Shivshankari, M.T. Vasudevan Nair, Manohar Shyam Joshi and Shamim Hanfi;
(from Bangladesh) Anisuzzaman, Hayat Mamud and Selina Hossain;
(from Sri Lanka) Radhika Coomaraswamy, Sunethra Bandaranaike, Gunadas Amarasekara and Parakrama Kodituwakku;
(from Nepal) Abhi Subedi, Dwarika Shrestha, Dambar Bir Thapa and Nabeen Chitrakar,
(from Bhutan) Ashi Kunzang Choden Roder and Dorji Penjore,
(from Maldives) Abbas Ibrahim and Ali Shareef.