Book festival from tomorrow

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, NOV. 23. The 1st Hyderabad book festival will be inaugurated at Nizam College Grounds on November 25. So far this annual event was known as Hyderabad book fair. It will be on till December 25 between 2 p.m and 9 p.m.

To mark the event several programmes are being arranged including interactions with eminent writers, editors and English language teachers.

Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Mr. M.Narender Rao, president, Mr.D.Vinod Kumar, secretary and Mr. Suresh Chandra Sharma, vice-president, said that more than 100 publishers, book distributors and newspapers would take part in the festival.

Among the book publishers and distributors were Higginbothams Private Limited, Allied Publishers Limited, Orient Longman Private Limited, Arkbird Publications, Visalandhra Book House, Sterling Group of Companies, S.Chand and Company, Krishnamurthy Foundation, Telugu Akademi, Telugu University, Pustak Mahal, Macmillan India Limited, Prajasakti Book House, Vikram Publishers, Holy Faith International, Prentice Hall of India, Navneet, Cambridge, Jaico, Sage Publications, Iskcon, Publications Division and National Book Trust of India.

Besides English publishers, regional languages like Hindi, Telugu and Urdu were also taking part. Several cultural activities, seminars, book reviews and book releases are being held during the period, they said.

Important among them were a seminar on "English for Practical Purposes" in which CIEFL staff would be taking part on November 28. On November 30, a seminar on "Terrorism, War and Peace", on December 1, seminar on Telugu literature, on December 2, a meet the editors programme and on December 3, a women writers meet is being arranged. Noted writers and intellectuals were taking part in these programmes, they said.

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