38th International Kolkata Book Fair

Today is the inauguration of 38th International Kolkata Book Fair at Milan Mela.
The Hon'ble Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee
inaugurated the fair this evening. 'Peru' is the theme of this year. The eminent
writer Shankar was present on the stage. Bolivia and Singapore are
participating for the first time. Some other attractions of this book
fair are - 1. Three-days Kolkata language-literature festival, 2. P C
Chandra Book Museum pavilion where many specimens of history of books
will be there, 3. NBT Bhasa-bandhan where exhibition of books in
Indian languages would be there.
The 3-days long Kolkata language-literature festival will inaugurate
central minister Sri Sashi Tharoor following by the songs of Usha
Uthup who also created the signature tune of this year's book fair.
Moreover, arrangements of lucky coupon and book privilege card have
been made at the fair.
A pavilion on the name of Suchitra Sen will be there too. Life time
achievement prize will be given to writer Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay. The
main gates of the fair will be ancient civilization gate of Peru,
Prinsep gate, West Bengal gate and Hemendra Kumar Roy 125 year gate.
The 5 halls of the fair are being named on Kamal Kumar Majumder, Sisir
Kumar Bhaduri, Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee, Ramtanu Lahiri and Pyarichand
Mitra. 600 bookstalls and 200 little magazine stalls will invite all
for the next 10 days.

--
A. B.

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