Dhaka: While the cricket World Cup fever has ‘attacked’ just about everything in the city, one venue still left unscathed is the Amar Ekushey Book Fair, going on at the Bangla Academy. As all others fell around like nine pins on the eve of the big match between Bangladesh and India, the book fair stood ... Read more
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Book fair sees holiday crowd
Ekushey Book Fair Book fair sees holiday crowd The Amar Ekushey Boi Mela venue wore a new look yesterday when children and youths of different ages overwhelmingly adorned their faces with different colours. Students of different colleges and universities of the capital adorn the faces of booklovers with various colours especially on Friday, the weekly ... Read more
Makeshift shops outside fair ground do brisk business
The sale in makeshift book stalls, eateries, toyshops and jewellery shops outside the Amar Ekushey Book Fair ground boosted in last few days. A signing campaign, demanding recognition to Bengali language as an official language of the United Nations, also drew attention of the visitors in the
e-information centre attracts young readers
Ekushey Book Fair e-information centre attracts young readers Raisul Islam Mithun, a student of city’s East West University, was seen happily browsing through the computers at the e-information centre of the Amar Ekushey Boi Mela looking for information about his favourite writer. “The system is very interesting and helpful,” he said, adding, “I found information ... Read more
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