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New Delhi: The Delhi
Weekend Book Bazaar, a literary carnival designed to give book
lovers, particularly students, an opportunity to browse and buy
their favourite books at cheap rates, will take place at Delhi
University's North Campus March 25-27.
To be held at Faculty of Fine Arts lawns, the mart is being
organised by the country's largest government publishing
institution, the National Book Trust (NBT).
It is part of NBT's year-long programme to celebrate the centenary
of the capital in 2011, a statement said.
The book mart initiative was inaugurated in January this year by
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit at an NBT event. Friday's bazaar
will be inaugurated by emeritus president of the Federation of
Indian Publishers Dina Nath Malhotra at 11 a.m.
With nearly 100 publishers and nearly 150 specially designed
pagoda-style vends, the bazaar is an attempt to connect promote
books in popular culture, an NBT spokesperson said.
A wide variety of books on art, culture, medicine and other topics
will be displayed and sold in the three-day extravaganza from 10
a.m. to 9 p.m.
Publishers will offer maximum discount and also sell their old
stock, rare and antiquarian books, the spokesperson said.
The day-long trade will be capped by an evening of music, Sham-E-Ghazal,
to be presented by the Delhi Academy Friday and recitation of Hindi
satire poetry, organised by Hindi Academy, Saturday.
The capital has an old tradition of open book bazaars. The nearly
50-year-old Sunday book market at Daryaganj in the old city was once
one of the largest book markets in the capital, selling old and new
books at throwaway prices.
The market has shrunk in size in the last two years because of
police crackdown on squatters. The Weekend Book Bazaar was an
attempt to recreate the magic of the Daryaganj book market.
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