Welcome To The World Book Fair

Book lovers from across India will get an opportunity to browse through millions of books and broaden their horizon of knowledge at the 18th New Delhi World Book Fair. Fair is organised by National Book Trust (NBT), an autonomous organisation under the Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry, the nine-day knowledge extravaganza would be held at Pragati Maidan.

The World Book Fair showcasing books on youth and children kicked off in the Capital. The fair organized with the feature more than 1200 publishers from 23 countries, including Germany, Russia, Pakistan, Iran and Vietnam, displaying their range of publications.

The major attraction of the Book Fair is the presentation by Russia, which is the guest of honour country at the fair. A large number of Russian publishers and authors expected to attend it. The focus now is to present a picture of contemporary Russia.

The other features of the fair are Youth Pavilion, Children Pavilion and the pavilion comprising books on and by Mahatma Gandhi. While the Children pavilion will showcase everyday activities for and by children, the Youth Pavilion has programmes on diverse subjects to attract the youth to the book fair and to bring them closer to books.

In words and in Deeds, an international rights Exhibition of works on and by Mahatma Gandhi at the special Gandhi pavilion. Father of the nation from the world of publishing. The exhibition seeks to promote Gandhian literature produced mainly by Indian author and publishers. Works published by more then 160 publishers are being represents in the pavilion.

The exhibition displays a wide range of books in different languages on Mahatma Gandhi, categorized into various subjects – biographies, books for children, creative literature, gandhian philosophy, letters & memories, diaries, non violence, peace and conflict and many more. The annual World Book Fair will be larger than ever before, with 1,343 participants from various countries.