With 1,200 Indian and foreign publishers at the book fair this year there is a wide variety to choose from. Each stall at the fair promises something exclusive and exciting. Here is a brief review of some of the Indian publishers on display.
Rupa Publications, to mark the 150th birthday of Rabindranath Tagore, has dedicated a section to the poet. Tagore's plays, poetry anthologies and novels are priced reasonably and stalked at the stall. These small paper backs are affordable and light to carry around when travelling.
The Penguin stall is easy to identify with its silver jubilee mascot ambassador car parked in the midst of heaps of books. To attract both, people looking for fast and easy reads in the form of their "metro reads", as well as former bestsellers like Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things. Paperback reprints of hugely popular novels like Shobhaa De's Starry Nights and R. K Narayan's The Guide are affordable. Penguin also offers merchandise like bags, mugs and notebooks.
The Harper Collin's stall offers an interesting activity to the visitors of the fair. The ‘Harper Collins Tweet a story’ goes like this: Post a 40 word story on the publisher’s India Twitter account. The best ones will be made part of a small book. The stall offers a comic take on Confessions of a Serial Dieter by placing a weighing scale at the stall called Confessions of a Serial Dieter Weighing scale where one can weigh oneself.
All in all, the book fair offers a variety spread over a huge expanse so spend the weekend at the fair and enjoy the myriad genres of books on offer.
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