The Delhi World Book Fair: 2-10 February 2008

The World Book Fair, in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi is India's oldest book fair started in 1972. The nine-day long 18th New Delhi World Book Fair showcasing, among others, books on and by Mahatma Gandhi as a tribute to the Father of the Nation on his 60th death anniversary. The series on Gandhi Studies from Orient Longman is committed to no one fixed way of understanding Gandhiji; it hopes like Gandhiji himself to be deeply dialogic.

Book Launch: Linguistic Genocide in Education – Or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights? by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas

The book Linguistic Genocide in Education – Or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights? by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas will be released at the International Conference on Multilingual Education on Wednesday, 6 February 2008 at 5:30 pm at The Ball Room, The Qutab Hotel Shahid Jeet Singh Marg New Delhi 110 016

The book argues that preservation of linguistic diversity is essential for the existence of biodiversity in the world. The author makes a case for the indigenous people and minorities who possess this linguistic and cultural diversity and also how the educational system invalidates and pushes them to get assimilated with the dominant linguistic group. Skutnabb Kangas, therefore, analyses the theories and practices that lead to this linguistic genocide and supports the claim for linguistic human rights.

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas was born in Finland and raised and educated in two mother tongues, Finnish and Swedish. She has taught and done research at the universities of Helsinki (Finland), Lund (Sweden) and Harvard. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas has written and edited several books and her interests lie in bilingualism and minority education.

ISBN 10: 81 250 3461 7 ISBN 13: 978 81 250 3461 2

Please visit Orient Longman at Stall No. 140 - 151, Hall No.1F