Bhutan provides a perfect setting for the festival, which will communicate tales of our shared landscape in the Himalayan   region, both as places of ecological and inspirational value and the region's cultural leitmotif redolent with the spirit of the   mountains. Surrounded by a sense of serenity and mysticism, come treasure moments of stories being told, poems and   songs being sung, signifying a rich exchange of inter-cultural dialogue between the two countries.

  Mountain Echoes will provide a platform for authors from India and Bhutan to get together and engage in a cultural   dialogue and understand Indian and Bhutanese literature in all its myriad forms and dimensions. The event will also bring   some international authors, poets and performers together - Pavan Varma who is currently the Indian Ambassador to   Bhutan; Namita Gokhale; His Excellency Jigme Yoser Thinley, the Prime Minister of Bhutan; Kunzang Choden; Patrick   French; Karma Ura; Rajkumar Hirani, Abhijat Joshi of Bollywood comedy ‘3 Idiots’ fame, cult classics ‘Munnabhai MBBS’   and ‘Lage Raho Munnabhai’ fame; Omair Ahmad; Gulzar, an accomplished poet, filmmaker and writer; Kynpham Sing;   Chetan Bhagat, the author of four blockbuster novels like ‘Five Point Someone’, ‘One Night the Call Center’; Kinley Dorji;   Sampurna Chattarji; Sonam Kinga; Shekhar Pathak; Tshering Wangyel; Sarnath Bannerjee, an Indian graphic novelist,   artist, and filmmaker; Dr. M S Gill; Mamang Dai; Leila Seth, the first woman Chief Justice of a High Court in India; Temsula   Ao; Samten Dorji will be there among many others.