The much-awaited 12-day annual Berhampur Book Fair was opened in this Silk City on Saturday. The fair was inaugurated by Revenue Divisional Commissioner L. N. Nayak in the presence of a number of litterateurs of the State at the St Stephens Church Ground near the Telephone Bhavan road. There are 80 stalls of various books that include fiction and non-fiction, entertainment and leisure, business and finance, hobbies, special interest, general interest and health and living. Many stalls have also been opened up by organisations related to Shirdi Sai Baba, Gayatri Shaktipeeth, Pragyan Mission, Geeta Press etc to sell their own publications. Some book traders like one from Puri Jagannath temple premises, who specialise in spiritual and religious books, have also come out to open their stalls in this book fair. Most of these stalls are drawing huge crowds. The crowd includes youth as well as the aged. The Book Fair Committee has chalked out different activities, including quiz competitions by Chanda Bijoyee Mishra and literary discussions by different literature academies of Ganjam district. The inaugural function was attended by eminent writer Das Benhur, Secretary of State Sahitya Academy Bijay Patnaik and Dainik Asha editor Pramod Kumar Panda.
Source: The Pioneer, The Hindu
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