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Poush Mela 2011

Book fair is the main attraction of this year's Poush Mela at
Shantiniketan. Literary collections of Rabindranath translated in 26
languages will be exhibited here for the international tourists.
Moreover, souvenir collections published to commemorate Tagore's 100,
125 & 150 birth anniversary will also be exhibited, translated in
Indian and foreign languages.
Tourists and foreigners started to come here already.
Apart from this, usual items of rural handicrafts will also be there.

The mela is officially open for 3 days (23-25 Dec) but unofficially it
will run upto 31 December.

--
A. B.

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