The New Delhi Rights Table, a two-day B2B session for publishers, translators, editors and rights agents was organized at Lounge 1, PragatiMaidan for providing business opportunities. Shri A Sethumadhavan, Chairman, NBT, Dr M A Sikandar, Director, NBT, Ms Magda Hadal, translator from Poland, Ms Magdalena Debowska, a Rights agent from Poland among others were present on the occasion.
The renowned Polish author, Olga Tokarczuk’s books ‘Tales of Galacia’ and ‘Wardrobe’ translated into Hindi published by RajkamalPrakashan were launched at Poland Pavillion in the presence of author and translators; Maria Shakuj and Monika Browarczyk. H.E. Mr. Piotr Kłodkowski, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland was also present on the occasion. The interactive session ended with a passage from the Hindi translation of ‘Tales of Galacia’ read out by one of the audience present in the session.
A Tribute to Farooq Shaikh was paid at Auditorium, Hall No. 7 where Ms Dipti Naval, talked about her relationship with Shri Farooq and said that he always believed in team-work rather than competition. The director of the movie SathSath, Shri Raman Kumar also spoke on the occasion. The session was moderated by Shri Raveesh Kumar, journalist and anchor, NDTV. Shri Sheikh being a book lover, promoted the cause of NBT for developing reading habit among people and participated in many book fairs and other events organized by NBT.
Shri RajivaWijesinha, author and High Commissioner of Sri Lanka talked about his two books Mirrored Images and the Bridging Connections both published by NBT at Author’s Corner (Hall 10-11). He said that the poems in the books are based on social upheavals before and after 1983, romance, affection as well as humanity. He expressed his concerns over growing violence. He also added that English language has helped India and Sri Lanka come together.
“If you draw, you write, you never feel bored”, said Ms.TirilValeur, an author and illustrator from Norway at a workshop Illustrating is Fun!organized at the Theme Pavilion in Hall No. 7 by NBT in association with Embassy of Norway. In this workshop Ms Tiril interacted with children and gave them tips to draw good illustrations.
A panel discussion on the topic Issues inContemporary Indian Children’s Literature was organized at the Theme pavilion in which Nilima Sinha, President, AWIC; Dr Ira Saxena, renowned author, Dr Varsha Das, former NBT Director; Dr Usha Dutta from NCERT and Ms Shahdeep Sharma participated. They discussed about the various aspects of the children’s literature, how to publish appealing books for children to make reading enjoyable and marketing of the books etc.
A Talk on Science Communication for Children by Dr V K Tyagi, Senior Scientist of VigyanPrasar was organized at the Theme Pavilion. Dr Tyagi interacted with the children and unfolded facts about magic. He said we need to see an object from six different directions, if we do not focus on all directions, we lose concentration and this is the trick that most of the magicians use.
The other programmes that were organized in the Theme Pavilion included an informal interaction of audience with Shri Debashish Deb, illustrator and Shri Sher Jung Garg, renowned author; a counseling session was by NBT in association with University of Delhi, Department of Continuing Education and Extension; a skit on importance of Water by students of GDGoenka School, Noida, Dance performance (Garba and Bhangra) by the students of SarvodayaKanyaVidyalaya.
Kids-Bubble, a new concept introduced at the New Delhi World Book Fair is attracting a large number of children. Today more than 300 students from various schools participated in art & craft activities and dance & singing competitions.
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