book fair is being organized in Chandigarh after a span of 16 years. Chandigarh Administration, along with the National Book Trust, New Delhi, brought this fair together at the Parade Grounds in Sector-17, Chandigarh.
While inaugurating the fair, Shivraj Patil a representative of Chandigarh Administration said, "It is important for our city to encourage such fairs and promote a reading culture among different age groups."
Emphasizing on the IT-savvy generation, Patil expressed his views about focusing more on e-books for the next fair. Book lovers from the city flooded the fair that registered a footfall of more than 1000 visitors on the first day.
Calligraphy workshop were an added attraction. Special seminars, book release sessions and script reading have also been scheduled where authors and poets of national and international repute, are invited by the Chandigarh Sahitya Kala Akademy to share their views.
More than 80 publishers have put up their stalls here and there is also a special illustrator's corner that offers a range of options of trendy T-shirts, coffee mugs, notepads, book marks, stickers, and so on.
The week-long Chandigarh Book Fair is not just a banquet of books for bibliophiles but will also host painting and creative writing competitions, workshops on book mark making, slogan writing, spell bee, essay writing in Sanskrit, and several such activities to keep the crowd engaged.
Meenakshi, a Hindi lecturer told Guardian20, "I regularly visit the state library and spend quality time at the Panjab University and other libraries as well, but the collection of books here is like a whole fresh conglomeration that I had been looking forward to. Being an ardent book reader, I had to visit the Delhi Book Fair every year but if this becomes a yearly feature in the city, it would be a boon for the city."
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