Kolkata Book Fair

33rd Kolkata International Book Fair will be ending this Sunday. It had brought in an opportunity for many book lovers across the State to browse through a variety of books from almost all over the world in one place and even buy some on stalls where they were being sold. Organised at Milon Mela on the Eastern Bypass, Scotland was the theme country, and had a special pavilion in the book fair. USA was honoured country at the fair and its stall had cut out of Obama, outside its pavilion, which attracted many !

In this fair this time it had 512 book stalls and Pavilions, 11 international complex like Germany, Cuba, Sweden, US etc., participation from 5 universities, 17 newspapers and periodicals, 30 Governemnt bodies and 39 Banks and Insurance companies. This literary festival invited a bouquet of writers, authors, story-tellers, musicians, academics, government officials, and above all people from across the state and Kolkata, the city of book lovers !

(In picture - Theme logo of the book fair as available Kolkata book fair's web site, photograph of USA pavillion and books at the Scotland stall)