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Gulshan ‘Boi Mela-2’ kicks off


Bangladeshpost
Published : 05 Mar 2022 08:10 PM

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the great Language Movement, a two-day long community book fair in the city's Gulshan kicked off on Friday.

The second edition of the Boi Mela, consisting of 25 stalls with renowned publishers and booksellers, was arranged by Gulshan Society at Gulshan Lake Park.

Shukla Sarwat Siraj, convener of the organising committee said that the book fair was organised in 2019 for the first time. But, it was not possible to organise the last two-year due to the Covid pandemic, she added. “We are impressed and satisfied to see the crowd on the first day of the two-day fair".

Though the fair was organised on a very small scale this year, it will be arranged on a bigger scale in the future, she hopes.

"The fair has been arranged to facilitate the residents of Gulshan area ... this area is at a great distance from Amar Ekushey Book Fair and so a separate book fair here will help the book lovers in Gulshan," she said.

Visitors also expressed their satisfaction with the neatly arranged segments of contemporary literature. They also wished that this type of book fair would continue in the future.

Nurul Haque is one of the visitors who thanked the Gulshan Society for organising such a fair.

The literature festival had stalls from renowned publishers and other organisations including Cosmos Books, Bengal Boi, etc.    UNB