Trivandrum: Renowned poet ONV Kurup inaugurated the 5th Grand Kerala Shopping Festival Trivandrum Book Fare 2011 at the Sanskrit College campus today. The ten day long fest is organised by the Kerala Institute of Children's Literature intending to encourage the reading habit among children and youngsters.

“Every parent should insist their child to read books. The books they read should evoke the seventh sense of a child and the child should fall in love with books. Thus forms a culture among us, a society with ignited minds,” said ONV.

The veterans of Malayalam literature Changampuzha, Thakazhi, Pala Narayanan Nair, Vailopilli, and Shooranad KunjanPillai were remembered and honoured at this function.