Bangalore Book Festival 2014 :
Today morning I attended Bangalore book festival 2014, which is
happening at Elaan Convention Center, Opp Brigade Millennium,
Puttenahalli, JP Nagar here in Bangalore from 19.12.2014 and is going to
end on 28.12.2014.
Last year, Bangalore Book Festival which
used to happen at palace ground was canceled due to some problem. I was
really disappointed by that. because Bangalore Book Festival is the one
event that I love to be at. from 2009, I’m attending this event
regularly. but when it was cancelled last year, I was totally frustrated
because I was waiting for this event from a year.
Last month, when I attended the
National Book Fair which took place at BEL Grounds, Jalahalli, I got
this information about this years Bangalore book festival which is going
to happen at palace grounds from December 19th. so I was happy to know
the news and made my mind to attend the event. as usual I was searching
the internet for some information about the book fest to make sure that
it is going to happen. but I didn’t get any information net.
when I didn’t get any information on the
net regarding the book fest, I assumed that, this year also it si not
going to happen and I don’t want to waste my time going to palace ground
believing that the book fest is happening there as I did last year and
came home empty handed with frustration.
two days ago, I was reading a newspaper
during my lunch hour in office, and one pamphlet which slid from the
papers while I was turning the page, caught my eyes. I took that and
read it. it was the pamphlet about Bangalore Book Festival 2014. I was
happy about my decision of not going to palace ground for this years
book fest because the venue for this years festival was changed from
palace ground to Puttenahalli, JP Nagar.
So Today morning I went there. It was
happening inside a convention center. not much of crowd. usually I
purchase Tamil books in book festivals, because this is the only
opportunity to find other language books of our choice. of course we can
buy online, but online we can’t get what we want.
I purchased the following Tamil Books
Vikatan Publication store
1. Kelvikkuri by S. Ramakrishnan
2. Thunai Ezhuthu by S. Ramakrishnan
3. Katha Vilasam by S. Ramakrishnan
4. Marudhanaayagam Khan Saheb by Diwan
Kalachuvadu Publication store
1. Thamizhyagathil adimai murai by Siva Subramaniyan
2. Oru Puliyamarathin Kathai by Sundara Ramaswamy
3. Panbaattu Asaivugal by Tho Paramasivan
I spoke to stall owners and organizers
about the kind of reaction for this years book fest. they told me that
the reaction was not so good. from 8 days, only 9000 people attended the
event, which is very very low compare to the kind of reaction the
Annual Cake Show is getting.
one of the main reason for the poor
reaction is the change in venue. Bangalore Book Festival was synonymous
with Palace Ground. changing the venue was not such a good idea
according to the stall owners. and more main reason for the poor
reaction is poor publicity.
very few people knew about Book
Festivals. The organizers should promote the event more aggressively so
that people can notice that such an event is happening. so that more
people can come and buy books, to make the event successful.
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