Saturday 15 September 2012

Book exhibition begins at Gandhi Hall





 A ten-day National Book Fair began at Gandhi Hall near R&T from Friday. Income tax commissioner S K Mishra, Doordarshan (Indore), director Geeta Makaram and a well-known poet Saroj Kumar were the chief guests. Nearly 80 book stalls from different regions of India have been set up.

Book of different streams, including philosphy, science, history and archaeology etc. There are good number of books on Indian philosophers including Osho and J Krishnamurthy. Mahatma Gandhi's-" My experiment with Truth" and "Hind Swaraj" have occupied a pride position in the fair. Mostly youngsters are visiting the fair.

Ashish Sachdeva an engineering student said, "I am looking for science fictions but however I came across a history book of George Orwell's 1984."

Doordarshan Director, Geeta Makram, said "Books do not need crowd, they need appreciators. Books need the real readers."

Tanya Yadav an arts students said, "Here there are good numbers of Hindi authors book like Prem Chand's Godan and Ramdhari Singh Dinkars book, infact there are good collection of poetry books like Gitanjali. "

Another visitor Ayush Singh said, " There are good collection of old english authors book. Like the work of Maxim Gorvky and Guy de Maussapant. "

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