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NBT to organise two national book fairs a year

Staff Reporter

As many as 110 publishers from across the country will participate in the exhibition

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The National Book Trust plans to organise two National Book Fairs from next year to further its mandate to promote publishing and the book-reading habit.

This was stated at a press conference here on Friday by NBT chairman Bipan Chandra.

This year's National Book Fair, being organised as part of the Golden Jubilee celebrations of Kerala's formation, will commence at the Putharikkandam grounds tomorrow.

As many as 110 publishers from across the country will participate in the exhibition comprising 130 stalls. There will be a special counter at the fair for the buying and selling of copyrights of books and a special pavilion for children's books.

This is for the second time that the fair is being held in the city; it was first held here in 1984, he said. The NBT will release two books at the fair— one on Sree Narayana Guru and the other, the biography of freedom fighter Mohammed Abdurehman Sahib. The Hindi translation of the book on Narayana Guru will be published in a month, Mr. Chandra said.

On the last day of the fair (on November 13), a committee will be formed to identify a permanent venue for organising an annual book fair in Thiruvananthapuram.

Popular books

"The NBT's series on poplar science, `Land and People' and `National Geography' are very popular. We have three new series of books; Popular Social Science, Afro-Asian Countries and Indian Diaspora," he said.

The Trust will soon bring out in book form the report of the six-member committee set up to study the communal riot in Kanpur in 1931. The committee's report, that was banned by the then Government, highlights why communal riots occur and how communal thinking spreads, he said. Attempts are also being made to secure the publishing rights of the detective novels for children written by filmmaker Satyajit Ray. A private publisher has brought out the English version of these books. The NBT will soon bring out the series in Indian languages.

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