World’s first Samskrita (Sanskrit) Book Fair
The first ever World Samskrita (Sanskrit) Book Fair is in progress at Bengaluru (Bangalore) during January 7-11, 2011 (Friday thru Monday). The details of the Book Fair is at http://www.samskritbookfair.org/about.
The venue is the National College ground, Basavanagudi, BENGALURU (BANGALORE), Karnataka, INDIA. There is a live-webcast as well at http://www.samskritbookfair.org/home/webcast
The fair and conference is organised by Samskrita Bharati .With over 100 exhibitors from India and abroad and lakhs of participants, the event is set to give both the language and its literature a huge boost. The book fair’s objective is to create a market for Samskrita publications, both classic works and contemporary writing, and to help popularise the language.
Samskrita is a world’s oldest language and is basis of several world’s languages. English too has several words with roots in Sanskrit. (Mother from Matru, Father from Pitru, Brother from Brathru, Daughter from Dhatri, Name from Naamdheyam, etc)
