Srinagar, May 31 -- J&K lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha on Saturday inaugurated the third edition of Kashmir Literature Festival and asked writers to shape positive discourse through fiction, non-fiction and other creative forms and inspire people because writer's craft lives not only in words, but in the pulse of people.

Sinha said that nobody should be allowed to distort history. "We must erase every trace of the colonial mindset & ensure that people abroad do not distort our history and present to serve their own narratives. It is the responsibility of writers to correct such errors and take the truth to global readers," Sinha said while addressing a gathering.

He said it is the responsibility of writers to correct such errors and ta...