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What the numbers do puncture is the assumption that the appetite has gone. Kolkata is preparing for its golden jubilee next year, with ten crore rupees sanctioned for a permanent site near the fairground, and Delhi has already opened registration for 2027 with free entry retained. A visiting publisher, walking through stalls with no room to manoeuvre, wondered aloud what the people announcing the death of the book had been smoking. On the evidence of this January, the question answers itself.