Book fair at College Square opens
Sixty stalls have been set up at College Square, venue of the boi utsav. Seventy publishing houses, big and small, have taken part in the fair.
Sixty stalls have been set up at College Square, venue of the boi utsav. Seventy publishing houses, big and small, have taken part in the fair.
Books on Ramakrishna, Vivekananda and Vedanta literature worth over Rs 50 lakh were sold in the recently-concluded 47th International Kolkata Book Fair.
The 47th edition of Kolkata International Book Fair concluded this evening with great enthusiasm.
With over 600 stalls and attracting over 2 to 3 lakh visitors every day, the 47th Kolkata International Book Fair at Boi Mela Prangan in Salt Lake organised by the Publishers & Booksellers Guild, proved its great success this year too. The last Sunday of this fair recorded a quite larger crowd than expected.
In a bid to attracted young readers a new Bengali publishing house has brought out books in the shape of Iphones in the Kolkata International Book Fair.
For the first time a Bengali book stall will have a permanent entry into the annual International Book Fair, organized by the Dubai government. It is a matter of great pride for the people from the state as well as Bengalis living in Dubai.
After witnessing a massive footfall of 26 lakh bibliophiles last year, the International Kolkata Book Fair is all set to woo the book lovers once more.
Tamil Nadu Information and Digital Services Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan inaugurated the 11-day book fair at Tamukkam Grounds in Madurai on Thursday.
The nine-day national book fair in Shimla, which concluded on Saturday, has drawn the attention of youth this year.
The book features more than 200 Rabindra Sangeet songs, which the reader can listen to after scanning a QR code with a smartphone.
