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Rare titles available at I & B Ministry’s Publications Division stall at Kolkata Book Fair

| @indiablooms | Feb 01, 2018, at 01:17 am

Kolkata, Jan 31 (IBNS): A new edition of the rare collection titled ‘Romain Rolland and Gandhi Correspondence’ has been unveiled at Department of Publications Division (DPD), Union Ministry of Information & Broadcasting’s stall at 42nd International Kolkata Book Fair, here today.

Speaking of this title which is considered a classic Gandhian literature, Sadhna Rout, DG, DPD informed, this rare title has been published after a long gap of two decades. Publications Division, in collaboration with National Gandhi Museum has restored the collection of letters, diary extracts and articles of Romain Rolland’s correspondence with and about Mahatma Gandhi.

The correspondence gives a glimpse of the minds of Mahatma Gandhi and Nobel laureate Rolland and brings to life the intellectual engagement between the two great thinkers.

This apart, DG, DPD also released a new illustrious volume on Swachh Bharat Abhiyan for school children that has been translated into 15 Ianguages including Bengali and titles under the aegis of ‘Ek Bharat, Shresth Bharat’.

These books will be available at DPD- a media unit of I & B Ministry’s stall no 263 at the book fair grounds.

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