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Showing posts with label Book fairs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book fairs. Show all posts
Monday, February 22, 2016
Swati Daftuar, The Hindu, 20th Feb 2016
It began in a little van two years ago. Today, Walking Book fairs has toured 20 States and reached thousands of people without access to books.
A truck full of books is one way to travel, and it’s not a bad way either. Satabdi Mishra and Akshaya Rautaray have been on the road for the past 70 days, and their India tour, covering 20 States and approximately 10,000 km in 90 days, is winding up. Soon, they’ll be back at home in Orissa, where they own a small bookstore, and where this story began.
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