{"id":92233,"date":"2020-02-03T00:59:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T19:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=92233"},"modified":"2020-02-03T00:59:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T19:29:23","slug":"states-research-dept-participating-in-ikbf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/02\/03\/states-research-dept-participating-in-ikbf\/","title":{"rendered":"State\u2019s research dept participating in IKBF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>KOLKATA, Feb 2:<\/strong> Arunachal\u2019s research department is participating in the 44th International Kolkata Book Fair (IKBF), which got underway here in West Bengal on 29 January and will end on 9 February.<br \/>\nThe department has selected \u2018Cultural heritage of Arunachal Pradesh\u2019 as its theme for this year, reflecting the cultural might of the ethnic communities of the state.<br \/>\nThe research directorate has been participating in the book fair since 2012.<br \/>\nArunachal\u2019s Deputy Resident Commissioner here, Subhasish Nath, inaugurated the state\u2019s exhibition stall. Eminent novelist and noted Bengali litterateur, Swapnamoy Chakraborty, on Sunday released four books at the Arunachal stall: Dictionary of Adi Language by Kabuk Pertin, Nyibu: Ritual Specialist of the Apatanis by Dr Radhe Yampi, Lullabies of Arunachal Pradesh: A Window to Human Mind by RN Koley and Dr Radhe Yampi, and Women Empowerment Among the Tagins by Mari Gibi.<br \/>\nHe also launched the reprinted version of State Museum: A Treasure House of Arunachal Pradesh Cultural Heritage by Dr SK Ghosh.<br \/>\nChakraborty lauded the service rendered by Arunachal\u2019s research department \u201cto reflect Arunachal Pradesh to the outside world through publications of unique heterogeneous culture of the people of Arunachal Pradesh.\u201d<br \/>\nHe described Arunachal as a \u201cstate of treasure, especially oral literature, which should be documented in oral literature archive for future generation.\u201d<br \/>\nEarlier, Research Director Batem Pertin presented a brief on the four books which were released. Noted journalist and writer, Arup Basu, also spoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA, Feb 2: Arunachal\u2019s research department is participating in the 44th International Kolkata Book Fair (IKBF), which got underway here in West Bengal on 29 January and will end on 9 February. The department has selected \u2018Cultural heritage of Arunachal Pradesh\u2019 as its theme for this year, reflecting the cultural might of the ethnic communities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-92233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}