India, Oct. 16 -- The fourth edition of the two-day Travel Writing Festival organised by Walking Bookfairs (WBF), an independent bookstore in Bhubaneswar, began on September 5 with a photo exhibition on Beat Poet, Allen Ginsberg at The 3rd Space, a repurposed warehouse. Akshaya Bahibala, co-founder of WBF and author of Bhang Journeys, explained that 23 of these pictures, showcased in collaboration with The Allen Ginsberg Project, New York, had never been displayed before. The only known photograph is the one that appears in Ginsberg's Indian Journals, where he stands before one of the stone chariot wheels of the Konark sun temple. Few know that Ginsberg and his partner visited Puri in 1962.

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