NIRALA SRIJANPEETH is the chair for creative writing, Instituted in Bharat Bhavan by the Government of Madhya Pradesh. The incumbents have been writers of repute including Nirmal Verma, Dilip Chitre, Krishna Sobti, Kedarnath Singh, Krishna Baldev Vaid, Kamlesh, Ramanath Tripathi, Vinod Kumar Shukla, Doodhnath Singh, Ramesh Chandra Shah, Manzoor Ehtesham and Rameshwar Mishr 'Pankaj' . Nirala Srijanpeeth has orgnised several literary events, the notable once being Antar Bharti- a series of six camps for young writers in the Indian Languages; a story writing camp at Pachmarhi and a symposium on the theme, Time and Creativity.