patna the day being sunday a large number of people mainly youths and children with their parents visited the patna book fair on the third day by one estimate about a lakh people turned up and went around various stalls put up at the book fair at gandhi maidanaccording to the organisers the day was marked by exhibition of paintings and sculpture story telling poetry recitation performance of nukkad plays seminar and questionanswer sessionthe inquisitive youths and children went around the stalls to purchase books on career computers science and technology as well as childrens books the rush was also seen at the stalls selling books bhajans and other literature published by the foundations run by various dharma gurusthe stalls of wellknown publishers like bharatiya gyanpeth penguin india rajkamal vani prakashan and bihar rashtra bhasha parishad also drew visitors in significant numbers there was much demand for dictionaries and childrens literature including quiz and pictorial representation of things the sale of audio cassettes to improve english language and pronunciation were also in demandsince the organisers had also taken care to make the saunterings along the book stalls a pleasure trip the stalls selling pop corns coffee and the local delicacies had a brisk salefor the connoisseurs of the other kind the paintings and the sculpture made by yuvraj singh were on display in damodar prasad ambashtha art gallery in the book fair his creations were widely praisedthat apart the actors of akshar arts group presented the nukkad play berojgari among those who took part in this play directed by manavendra tripathi were ajit ashutosh rahul samir bharatendu johny rana rajiv hiralal and abhishekon the occasion of the release of the book kitabon ki duniyan by dhruv kumar vishal publications organised a seminar on the book those who spoke on the occasion were ram shobhit singh shrikant and radha krishna singh they felt that the readership of books had increased in the state similarly on the stage of jan sambad a questionanswer session was organised on the theme kitna badal raha bihar the students of anaupcharik shiksha kendra of hamidpur kurji in patna went around the book fair with the aids ribon wrapped around their chestsin a bid to spread awareness about aids and the need to take preventive measures they also visited various book stalls at another stall the students and children associated with a social group oxygen made greeting cards