Kolkata Book Fair to return in Jan. 2022
The Hindu
At the event, disparate political ideologies will get chance to sell their literature
Life in the City of Joy largely revolves around two events: Durga Puja, which marks the onset of autumn, and the ‘boi mela’ or book fair, held towards the end of the winter, when people pour out of their homes for a date with the printed word.
While Kolkata didn’t miss out on Durga Puja in spite of the pandemic, though the scale of celebrations was nowhere close to what it used to be during pre-COVID days, it didn’t have the book fair that should have been held in January 2021. Now, after a gap of two years, it is set to be inaugurated on January 31, 2022, and will go on till February 13, the venue being the usual Central Park in Salt Lake City.
“We owe it to the small publishers and to the public. The publishers are on the verge of starvation because there has been no book fair in the past two years.” Tridib Kumar Chatterjee, honorary general secretary of the Publishers’ & Booksellers’ Guild, which organises the Kolkata Book Fair, told The Hindu.
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