‘Dindigul Reads’ conducted to create awareness

Ahead of the Dindigul Book Festival scheduled to be held from October 22 to November 1, ‘Dindigul Reads’ (Dindigul Vaasikirathu) reading event was held to create awareness about the event and the importance of reading.

The book festival will be jointly organised by the Dindigul district administration, the Directorate of Public Libraries and the Dindigul Ilakkiya Kalam.

Dindigul Collector Durgamoorthi, who inaugurated the reading event at Parvathy’s Arts and Science College in Dindigul, urged the public and students to attend the book festival and make it a grand success. Similar reading events were held in schools and colleges across the district.

Dindigul Book Festival which will be held from October 22 to November 1 on the Anguvilas Higher Secondary School grounds. Cultural programmes by accomplished artistes will be a highlight of the book festival. Cultural programmes featuring school children will be held on all eleven days of the book festival. Steps have also been taken to facilitate participation of college students. Transport facilities, including buses, will be arranged.

Apart from the cultural programmes, seminars, world cinema screenings and lectures will be held at the venue. Stalls promoting millet products and products made by Women Self-Help Groups will be set up on the book festival premises.