National Book Week begins across India

NEW DELHI: The 29th edition of National Book Week, which began on Thursday, is bigger than ever before. With the opening day also coinciding with Children's Day, the event includes exhibitions, sales and competitions for kids among other things. Organised by the National Book Trust, it will be on till Nov 20 across 21 cities in 17 states and union territories, including Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Tripura, Haryana, Bihar and Karnataka.

In existence since 1983, the National Book Week has been organised on a much larger scale this year with 250 events being held across the country. "The book week has been a subdued affair so far. It wasn't possible for the National Book Trust to hold it on a large scale. We had limited manpower. So this time we have collaborated with NGOs, booksellers and other publishers," says M A Sikander, director, National Book Trust.

In Delhi, the book week is being held in Zakir Husain College. "We wanted to target the children from the Walled City this time. In Bhubaneshwar we have 16,000 tribal children participating in the book week," he added.

A book exhibition at the college premises has also been organised by NBT in collaboration with Sahitya Akademi and National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language. NBT has also put up a photo gallery at the venue showcasing journey of NBT since its foundation in 1957 through select photographs, a release said.

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