The celebrations marking Pahela Phalgun, the first day of spring according to the Bangla calendar, added a new dimension to the month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair, with young people, in colourful dresses, roaming the fair premises. Thousands of young people, the boys in traditional pyjamas and punjabis and the girls in yellow saris, crowded the fair and ... Read more
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Book fair offers part-time jobs for many youths
The month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair has been an income source, besides being a means of gathering experience, for many young people. There are a few stalls among a total of 274 participating publishing houses where young people, mainly students of bachelor and masters
Number of new books falls
First Week of Book Fair Number of new books falls Quite unusual with the Ekushey Book Fair, the number of new books arriving at the fair in the first week of the month-long even fell because of political unrest. A total of 490 new titles hit the stalls in the fair during the first week ... Read more
Young writers take spotlight in book fair
Like the previous book fairs, this year young writers and their followers are gathering daily at the Little Magazine Chattar at the Amar Ekushey book fair especially after the dusk. Little magazines often run innovative or experimental works were also among the top choice of visitors. Little magazines are usually published for reviews, essays, fiction, ... Read more
‘Mela’ of pirated books outside
With several copies of pirated books in his hands, 13-year-old Sumon was hawking on the footpath near the entrance of Amar Ekushey Boi Mela premises yesterday. He was not allowed inside the main premises of the book fair to sell his pirated books. But, this did not impact on his spirit in vending books, as ... Read more
On the sidelines of book fair
Someone entering the Ekushey book fair premises is likely to hear public announcement made by the fair information centre seeking donator of blood for emergency patients. The visitors, alongside browsing and buying books, also pay heed to the appeal for humanitarian initiatives like donating bloods to different volunteer blood collecting organisation and
3-day book fair launched in Sylhet
Sylhet district police administration on Sunday launched a three-day book fair on the police lines ground, on the occasion of International Mother Language Day. The Sylhet Shahjalal University of Science and Technology vice-chancellor, Saleh Uddin, inaugurated the book fair as the chief guest
Book fair teems with holidaymakers
The Ekushey book fair as usual drew a large crowd on Friday, with the holidaymakers thronging the book stalls. A total of 164 new titles hit the book fair on the 18th day of the fair while 40 new books were launched, highest number of books launched in a single day so
Book fair gains momentum
Novel tops choice list The Ekushey Book Fair started gaining momentum, drawing good crowd and witnessing good sales as well on the ninth day on Wednesday. Visitors, who were just thumbing through new arrivals, also started buying books, publishers said, adding that novel was on top of the selling list, followed by volumes of
Book fair begins in Khulna
The month-long Khulna Ekushey Book Fair 2011 began on the Khulna Divisional Government Public Library premises at Bayra in the Khulna city Tuesday afternoon. Organized by Khulna district administration, the fair began with the slogan ‘Book to achieve vision 2021’ and aims at creating readership of good books and make the young chaps interested in