bout 70 of India's most successful writers are scheduled to present their work at the event, which, according to Agence France-Presse, is expected to draw nearly 300,000 visitors and approximately 7,000 exhibitors from 111 countries.
Invited by India's National Book Trust, the impressive list of poets and writers includes everyone from Punjabi poet Ajeet Caur to Hindi fiction writer Alka Saraogi, Bengali poet Alokeranjan Dasgupta to English fiction writers Altaf Tyrewala, Pankaj Mishra, Amit Chaudhuri and Amitav Ghosh, Hindi poet Ashok Vajpayi to bilingual (Marathi and English) poet Dilip Chitre, playwright Girish Karnad, Urdu poets Javed Akhtar and Nida Fazli, Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi, even United Nations Under Secretary General for Communications, Shashi Tharoor.
Also invited by other institutions and publishers are authors like Vikram Chandra, Rana Dasgupta, Shobhaa De, Kiran Nagarkar, Vikram Seth, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Gulzar and 2006 Booker Prize nominee Kiran Desai.
Image: A hostess waits for visitors prior to a press tour of the India stand.
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