India, Jan. 16 -- From shaping a national reading culture to honouring military sacrifice, Day 6 of the New Delhi World Book Fair 2026 marked a meaningful intersection of ideas, history and nationhood.

The Reading India Samvaad 2026, a two-day National Leadership Dialogue on Reading and Libraries, began on Thursday. Organised by the National Book Trust (NBT), India, under the Ministry of Education, Government of India, the Samvaad is envisioned as a national convergence platform to strengthen India's reading, library and knowledge-access ecosystem, aligned with NEP 2020 and the national vision of Viksit Bharat@2047.

The dialogue was inaugurated by Sanjay Kumar, Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Educatio...