Books alone will help us define our identity: Education minister Pradhan | India News
Education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday said that we need to nurture a book-loving society, as books alone will help us define our identity and navigate into the future.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the 52nd New Delhi World Book Fair (NDWBF), Pradhan was lauded by India’s rich heritage of books and literature.
Mankind has an uninterrupted love affair with books. Be it the scrolls of Egypt, the palm leaf and bhojpatra’ manuscripts of India, humans have always found the written word irresistible. Books give us humans our peculiar identities, he said.
He added that book writing, publishing and selling should be seen as a labor of love instead of commerce.
As far as India is concerned, books will never lose their charm. As the knowledge century further unfolds, the book alone will help us define our identity and navigate into the future. a book is an intellectual product, not a commodity. Book writing, publishing and selling therefore cannot just be commerce, it has to be a labor of love, Pradhan said.
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