Calcutta Book Fair | Largest in the Globe | 2016

One of the most important festivals for all the people around India, as well as book lovers of the globe. Calcutta book fair renamed as “International Kolkata Book Fair“. It has a very good motivational history in the background of the Calcutta book fair.  In 1974, some of the young publishers ware chatting in the Indian famous coffee house at college street and were discussing how to make an interesting platform for book lovers. They got to arrange a  book fair as experiments though most of the senior’s publishers criticized and demotivated them. The book fair organized with 36 publisher’s 56 stalls, on 5th March 1976 besides ‘victoria memorial hall’. In a couple of years, this book fair becomes a routine of visitors from the field of literature lovers around the world and also increased the visitors’ gatherings as well as stalls and publishers. Due to a lack of large space after the years, it’s required to change the locations frequently from one place to another place. Since 1995 it was started to representing the focal theme every year. 

Most of the visitors like to consider the book fair as an inherent part of Kolkata. Kolkata book fair inspired to organize so many new bookfair around the country such as Siliguri bookfair and ‘world book fair’ at New Delhi etc.

As usual, It was really memorable for me though I hadn’t a huge time roaming around the book fair last year. I have participated in the book fair after my office directly. Jelich Mahmud and his few friends ware waiting for me in the book fair. Jelich is my ex-student. Currently, the ‘Kolkata book fair’ organizing in the ground of Milon Mela Ground which is exactly opposite of “Kolkata Science City”. If you are coming by train, your destination is Park Circus Station then bus or auto for 10 minutes maximum. Though there are so many directional bus routes. You never feel so hectic due to strong management with the help of Kolkata Police.

Last few years I was planning to research the world’s most controversial place in Palestine. So I have decided to buy related books usually. After a long time of roaming around the bookstalls. I have found a few important books on Palestine, Israel Arab.