World Book Day 2025
Event Start Date : 23/04/2025 Event End Date 23/04/2025
World Book Day, also known as World Book and Copyright Day or International Day of the Book, is an annual event organized by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) to promote reading, publishing, and copyright.
A reader lives thousand lives before he dies.
The man who never reads lives only one.
DAV Model School IIT Kharagpur also took the initiative to celebrate the World Book Day through a series of activities, for the students while acquainting the students with the colourful world of books.
23rd of April marks the birth and death anniversary of the greatest writers of all times William Shakespeare and the Spanish prodigy Miguel De Cervantes and many famous authors of all times, thus it was chosen to be celebrated as the WORLD BOOK DAY. Special assembly was conducted wherein students shared quotes from the famous plays of Shakespeare, recited Sonnets, delivered speech and sang songs. In order to commemorate Shakespeare’s contributions to the world of literature, a glimpse of his life and works were displayed for the students. The students were thrilled by class activities. Principal madam, encouraged the students to develop reading habits and appreciated students’ efforts.
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