Tamil titles score at the Chennai Book Fair

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The 34th Chennai Book Fair at St George’s Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School on Poonamallee High Road saw a steady stream of visitors. Newspaper reports pegged the number of visitors to the 14-day fair at 12 lakh (1.2 million), a more than 50 per cent increase over last year. However, the bulk of that number comprised students from schools and colleges in Tamil Nadu and, somehow, the once palpable excitement of visiting the annual book fair was missing. Nevertheless, books sales registered a 25 to 30 per cent increase over last year’s, according to Rama Lakshmanan, secretary of the Booksellers and Publishers Association of South India (BAPASI), which organises the fair. ...cont´d

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