Grants/Kerala Sahitya Akademi Book Festival 2015

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 * Grant contact name: Manoj K (User:Manojk)
 * Grant contact username or email: manojkmohanme03107@gmail.com
 * Grant contact title (position): Wikimedia Volunteer
 * Project lead name: Kerala Sahitya Academi Book Festival 2015
 * Project lead username or email: mlwikisource@gmail.com
 * Project lead title (position), if any: Event Coordinator
 * Full project name: Kerala Sahitya Academi Book Festival 2015; Cultural exhibition (Malayalam Computing-Package and Practices 2015)
 * Amount requested (in INR):16,000
 * Provisional target start date:02-02-2015
 * Provisional completion date:11-02-2015

Project scope
The Kerala Sahitya Akademi is a autonomous institution established for promotion and development of Malayalam language and literature. it is working under the ministry of Culture, Govt. of Kerala. As a part of its objectives akadmi is used to organize a 10 days national level book festival every year in its campus at thrissur. This Year the book festival was happend from February 2-11, 2015.

Promothion of research in the field of language and literature is also a major objective of akademi. Apart of the Book Festival; Academi organizing a cutural exibition on the topic on Malayalam Computing Technologies (കമ്പ്യൂട്ടര്‍ മലയാളം; ഉപയോഗ വൈവിധ്യം). Malayalam Wikimedia Community was associating this event on 2012 onwards. This Year We got invitation for running a stall on Malayalam Web and Computing Technologies. In 10 days Exibitons, thousands of peopls vistied inculding famous writers. 16+ Malayalam Wikimedians Voluntered to run the stall.

Team members (optional)

 * Manoj K
 * Ranjith Siji
 * Renjith Paniker
 * Alfas
 * Jaison Nedumbala
 * Sreejith Koiloth
 * Tony Antony
 * Lalu Meledath
 * Akhil Krishnan