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The 38th variation of the Hyderabad Book Fair concluded connected Monday, December 29, marking a emergence successful nationalist participation, with organisers estimating a footfall of astir 16 lakh visitors implicit the 11-day event.
The fair, which began connected December 19, recorded a crisp summation compared to the 12 lakh visitors successful 2024. Organisers described the effect arsenic 1 of the strongest successful caller years, noting a peculiarly encouraging turnout of young readers.
“The ample beingness of youngsters challenged the wide cognition that speechmaking habits are declining owed to accrued surface time. At slightest fractional of the visitors were young radical and stalls selling Telugu books received a beardown response. Telugu publications accounted for astir fractional of the stalls astatine the fair, reflecting sustained involvement successful determination connection literature,” said R. Vasu, caput of the Hyderabad Book Fair.
Mr. Vasu besides said that a publication donation inaugural acceptable up astatine the venue received an overwhelming response. A full of 124 donors contributed books, filling 3 DCM trucks. The collected books volition beryllium distributed successful villages crossed Telangana wherever entree to speechmaking worldly remains limited, helium said.
Speaking astatine the closing ceremonial connected Monday, erstwhile Supreme Court Judge Justice B. Sudershan Reddy said the ample turnout was noteworthy successful this property of increasing integer addiction. “It is heartening to spot lakhs of radical be the just and determination were precise fewer books that could not beryllium recovered astatine the event,” helium added. Justice Reddy besides appealed to the organisers to guarantee that a pouch size Telugu mentation of the Constitution of India is made disposable astatine the publication just adjacent year.
