Governor Prof Ganeshi Lal inaugurated the 21st Jagatsinghpur Book Fair on Wednesday. He said there are four types of books across the globe classified as management, relationship, quality leadership and self-transformation. All these books available in India are the best. The Mahabharata is the best book about governance, The Ramayana says about the relationship to maintain among human beings, Chanakya is regarded as quality leader of India. Transformation of knowledge is available from Rusi Baisistha, who was Lord Ram’s guru. The Mahabharata is an antidote of all crises, problems and complications.
The Governor also said Mahatma Gandhi was the man of century as he showed the path of truth, peace and nonviolence because of his wide reading habit of books, including Gita, Quran and Bible. Students and youths should follow Gandhi’s book-loving attitude.
Minister Raghunandan Das said book fairs are places where people meet each other, generate and share new thoughts and ideas.
Local MP Dr Rajashree Mallick and district MLAs Prasanta Muduli and Sambit Routray also spoke. District Collector and Sanskrutika Parishad chairman SK Mohapatra presided over the function. Governor Lal also inaugurated the book fair’s souvenir “Smruti Patra” and a book “Sundaragarh Dairy” written by Collector Mohapatra.