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Penguin Fever: Early spring for book lovers

A special edition of Penguin Fever to mark the 30th anniversary of the publisher got some of its best writers together in Delhi

Author Ruskin Bond at Penguin Fever
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Author Ruskin Bond at Penguin Fever

Uttaran Das Gupta
Winter is late this year in Delhi, but spring seems to have come early, at least for book lovers, with a special edition of the annual Penguin Spring Fever to mark the 30th anniversary of the publishing company in the country. The six-day event which began last Thursday had eight well-attended sessions, where the audience was treated to conversations with and interviews of some of Penguin’s finest — Ruskin Bond, Arundhati Roy, Perumal Murugan and Shashi Tharoor, as well as Shobhaa De and Vidya Balan.
 
Roy, whose novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, made it to the Booker long