Chennai: Next to Margazhi music, Chennaiites will be enchanted with the book festival.
Several publishing houses are excited to participate in the Tamil Nadu’s biggest and popular book fair in the city with their new collections that will start on January 10 and will end on January 22.
Bookseller’s association staff say that more than 700 stalls will be put up in the fair. And YMCA has been finalised as the venue.
Aiming for bumper profits in the book fair, publishers are gearing up with new titles on children, science, environment, literature and law.
Many publications have come up with several books for children and teens than for other age group readers.
K. Nagarajan, publisher of the Bharathi Puthagalayam, said that he would hit the show with detective stories penned by renowned filmmaker Satyajit Ray for children and other comic books.
“We have 15 new titles on comic stories, history, sociology and science for children this year. Children literature in Tamil is a niche area but it is fast growing.” P.N.Sivam of Alaigal publications said he was ready with two interesting topics on women revolutionaries and Ambedkar for the fair.
Mazhalai Sol Pathipagam talks of 3D books for children. “We have got three big collections for children this year.
One book has 20 stories for children with 3D pictures.
Another book on Panchantra stories which are popular among children even at e-age,” said K.Malarvizhi, publisher of Mazhalai Sol Pathipagam She said that colourful storybooks still excite children in the age of touch screen phones and tablets.
Poovulagin Nanbargal, a voluntary organisation working on environment, has come up with eight new books on birds, environmentalists and 20 other small books on recent green issues like methane extraction project and Kudankulam power project to introduce green issues to school and college students.
