Kolkata, Feb 9 (PTI) West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Thursday inaugurated the three-day 9th Kolkata Literature Festival here, which is being held at the venue of the ongoing International Kolkata Book Fair.

"If there is a hungry Bengali… asked to choose between book and bread, he will go for the book," Bose said amid a loud cheer from the crowd.

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The governor, a writer himself, said a piece of literature is first born in the mind and then it takes shape on paper.

“All our books have been perceived and composed in the mind first,” he said.

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West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu, who was also present on the occasion, said the literary meet is an integral part of the book fair.

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