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India Gets Its First Official Book Village, An Answer To Hay-On-Wye

WORDS Posted: May 11, 2017 4:45 am

Bhilar, a strawberry-farming mountain town of some 5,000 people about 150 miles southeast of Mumbai, has a particularly rich collection of rare books in the Marathi language (as well as works in Hindi and English), and the plan of the Maharashtra state government is to promote literary tourism and host book festivals in Bhilar along the lines of those in the Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye.

WORDS Published: 05.05.17

Read the story in The Hindu (India) Published: 05.05.17

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