NBT’s titles commemorate 550th year of Guru Nanak Dev to be released by HRD Minister and Minister for Food Processing Industries. This year the world celebrates the 550th birthday of Guru Nanak Dev. The occasion is marked by book releases, panel discussions, deliberations and seminars on the life and teachings of Guru Nanak.
On the occasion, the National Book Trust of our country has published three titles – Guru Nanak Bani, Nanak Bani, and Sakhian Guru Nanak Dev – to spread the message of his writings amongst readers of Indian sub-continent. These books published originally in Punjabi shall be translated into 15 major Indian languages.
The above three titles of National Book Trust will be released by Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, HRD Minister and Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Minister for Food Processing Industries, at Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Khalsa College, University of Delhi, on November 7 at 10 am. Principal Dr Jaswinder Singh, Chairman S Tarlochan Singh, Dr Jaspal Singh, Member NCMEI, and professor Govind Prasad Sharma, Chairman NBT, will also be present.
NBT India has already published the Guru Nanak Bani in Urdu, Odia, Marathi, Hindi and Gujarati. The translation in Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Sanskrit, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Sindhi and English will be published.
The Union Cabinet passed a Resolution in November 2018, to celebrate the 550th Birth Anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev in the year 2019, throughout the country and across the globe, in a grand and befitting manner along with State Governments and the Indian Missions abroad. One of the highlights of the decisions taken in the Cabinet meeting was that the NBT India will publish the Gurbani in different Indian languages. UNESCO will publish Guru Nanak Dev’s writings in major world languages.
In the book entitled Guru Nanak Bani, compiled by Bhai Jodh Singh, has collected various verses from the original Bani of Guru Nanak Dev and collated them according to the theme. The book Nanak Bani (compiled by Manjit Singh) is a collection of five prominent writings (paanch bania) of Guru Nanak Dev. The Janamsakhis, literally meaning birth stories, are writings which profess to be the biographies of Guru Nanak. Sakhian Guru Nanak (compiled by Jagtarjit Singh) is a book based on life stories of the holy figure.