No mention of Khuda Baksh Library at Delhi Book Fair

Khuda Baksh Library, renowned the world over for rare collection of manuscripts, has found no mention at the ongoing Delhi Book Fair leaving many visitors upset but the organisers have now admitted the "lapse" and expressed regret over the "bibliographic blunder".
The Delhi Book Fair 2013 has chosen 'Library and Readership' as the theme for this year's event and as part of it, has also presented an exhibition on old libraries of India at Pragati Maidan here, but the famed library is "conspicuous by its absence".
"Khuda Baksh Library is conspicuous by its absence here. We have the National Library of Kolkata, Rampur Raza of UP, even the smaller libraries of Bhubaneswar and Hyderabad have been given space at the exhibition, but not so much as even a mention of Khuda Baksh here.

"It s not just a mistake or lapse on part of the organisers it is a bibliographic blunder," Vipin Jetly, one of the exhibitors told PTI, who also pointed out howlers on the panels put up at the exhibition.
Established in the late 19th century by Moulawi Khuda Baksh Khan after inheriting his father's collection, the Library was opened to the public in Patna in 1891 as the Khuda Baksh Oriental Public Library.
Declared as an institution of national importance by the government of India in 1969, it houses one of the most biggest and exquisite repository of manuscripts and books, and has been visited by countless dignitaries and scholars from India and abroad, since its inception.

"How can any respectable organisation doing an exhibition on libraries of India forget Khuda Baksh? That shows very poorly on us Indians too, as to how seriously we take a subject matter.
"I mean they have spelt American Library in the title as 'Amirican' Library and then Raja Ram Mohan Roy's name as 'Raja Ram mohan Roy'. Clearly it shows no one proofread the panels' content before they went public," Jetley said.
When approached by PTI for a reaction, the organisers admitted the lapse and ascribed it to "lack of time and space" but regretted that "it shouldn't have happened".