On the sidelines of book fair

Admin — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:46:11 +0000

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 extending financial help to ailing children, students and others.
During the current book fair, at least three stalls were collecting blood from the donors and till February 22, they collected about 2,560 bags of blood. Of them, Quantum Foundation had collected about 1,600 bags, Red Crescent about 600 bags and Sandhani about 300 bags.
Abu Hanif of Quantum Foundation said peoples from all walks and ages were donating blood and most of them were the young people.
A numbers of volunteers were collecting money outside the book fair entrance and exit gate for blood caner patients, Abdur Rahman, a secondary school certificate examinee of Badda Alatunnessa High School, Shanto, Class IV student of Dujay Pre Cadet School of Jhenidah, Shihab, a four-year-old child, and others.
Besides them, many were also collecting money for the mother of Rezwana Haq, a student of Institute of Education and Research, Dhaka University.
Shuvo Chakrabarty, brother of Shanto, said people visiting fair were extending financial help to those who were collecting money.
Abdur Rashid, a visitor to the fair, were found putting money into the glass box for Shihab.
On Tuesday, the fair committee observed the third and final children’s hours from 11:00am to 3:00am. The academy allowed a guardian with each of the children.
According to the salespersons of different stalls, trade on the day was satisfactory and the trend would keep up to the end of the fair.
According to the fair information centre, a total of 102 new titles hit the stalls on the day while 24 new titles were launched at Nazrul Mancha.
Collection of poem led the tally of new arrivals with 29 titles, followed by 18 collections of stories, 12 researches, 11 novels and others on the day.
The academy will today hold seminars titled ‘Rabindranath: Na Ninda Na Stuti’ ‘Rabindranather Brhamha Sahitya’.
Shantunu Kaiser and Robayet Ferdous will read out the keynote papers while Faijul Latif Chowdhury, Rafiq Kaiser, Aminur Rahman Sultan and Farjana Siddika will take part in the discussion.
Pabritra Sarker will preside over the programme to be followed by a cultural programme.

Courtesy of New Age

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Book fair gains momentum

Admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:21:31 +0000

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 poems.
Books of short-stories, meant for children, are also on high demand, they added.
According to the fair information centre, the number of new arrivals increased, compared with the last three days, as 125 new titles hit the fair on the day while the same office reported arrival of 97 books on February 6, 106 on February 7 and 66 on February 8.
Stall attendants of Anya Prakash, Srabon, Oitijjjhya, Adorn, Agami and many others said like the previous years novels was on the top choice of the readers followed by poetry collection, short-stories, juvenile literatures, essays and titles on liberation war.
Attendants at the Bangla Academy stall said along with different types of dictionaries, many old books on 50 per cent commission were also attracting the visitors.
Afjal Hossain, stall attendant of the Oitijjhya, said as the book fair was progressing towards the middle and some special days would be observed within the next week, the fair was now gaining momentum.
Stall attendants of other publishers echoed him.
Shawkat Hossain, a Dhaka University student, said he was visiting the fair almost every day since its opening and had bought two novels so far.
‘People started buying books as many new titles had hit the fair,’ he said.
Meanwhile, sales of the books, published abroad and published by other publications, continued at the stalls set up outside the Bangla Academy premises in the absence of vigilance at the fair venue.
Collection of poems led the tally of new arrivals on the day with 25 titles followed by 23 novels, 10 collections of stories and nine titles on liberation war and language movement, and others.
Nine books were launched at Nazrul Mancha of the fair.
As part of the month-long discussion on the life and works of Rabindranath Tagore, the academy held a seminar titled ‘Rabindra nather Roman-tikata O Adhunik Kabitar Dwandwa’. Ashim Shaha read out the keynote paper while Siddika Mahmuda, Abdus Selim and Ahmed Reza took part in the discussion presided over by Hayat Mamud.
The academy will today hold a seminar titled ‘Rabindranather Gaan Lalitakalar Amrita’. Nural Anwar will read out
the keynote paper while Mridul Kanti Chakraborty, Rezwana Chowdhury Banya, Shila Momen will take part in the discussion.
Retired justice Tafazzul Islam will preside over the programme.
A cultural programme will follow the discussion.

Via: New Age

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