The Bangla Academy organizes a book fair in the month of the language movement. The book fair has expanded over time and its fame has spread far and wide. Various types of books including literature are also being published on this occasion. But if we look at the quality, then in many cases one may […]
Police arrested both from Suhrawardy Udyan on Thursday night. A case was registered regarding the incident, he was shown arrested, and sent to court. Shahbag police station chief Noor Mohammad said that the duo had extorted Tk 1,500 from four people who came to the book fair from Chandpur, posing as police. He then returned […]
The task force constituted to monitor the Amar Ekushi Book Fair has recommended closure of stalls of Rabeya Book House and Grontho Prakash for irregularities like selling pirated books. The task force also recommended warning seven publishing houses for violating the policy laid down for publishers. The seven publishers who have been warned include Ma […]
Passing by another stall, I saw many new faces, some of them new poets, budding fiction writers and so on. I stopped and started checking some books. A seller said, it has very nice poems, ma’am, please check. I turned the page and found it was fiction, maybe a thriller. I asked, “Really, which one […]
Children’s time at the book fair
Children at the Ekushi Book Fair
After inspecting the security arrangements at Suhrawardy Udyan for the book fair starting on Wednesday, the DMP commissioner said, “The cyber unit of the DMP will work to ensure that no one publishes provocative books or posts provocative writings on social media.” Don’t post.” Farooq also said that the police would take necessary steps to […]
The temple gate of Suhrawardy Udyan, right opposite Bangla Academy, will be used as the main entry point to the Suhrawardy Udyan area of the fair due to the location of the Metro Rail construction. The main stage of the fair will be held in the Bangla Academy premises like previous years. Controversy over book […]
Writer Imdad Haque began his career in journalism. Presently, he is the Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of External Affairs. This is Imdad Haque’s second book. During his visit to various natural-historic places of the country, he got acquainted with a Serbian girl. It was not love at all or less than love. In […]
Organizers denied Adarsh Prokshoni entry to the fair this year over allegations of dissent, leading the company’s CEO Mahbub Rahman to accuse the Bangla Academy of taking a stand against freedom of speech. Quoting a member of the Mela committee, he said the academy blocked its allocation because of three books: Fawaiz Ahmad Tayyeb’s Theory […]