Kolkata: The Boiparay Boi Utsab, the annual festival of books at College Square, was thrown open on Tuesday evening.

From 3pm to 8pm, 60 stalls are only selling ... interest,” said Gupta. The book fair in College Square gives book lovers and readers scope and space to choose books, a luxury that they often do not ...

The moment I would enter the fair, the scent of new books, the hustle of stall arrangements ... I always slipped a book into my bag. I was like an ant gathering food for the year—except I ...

A book fair, showcasing an extensive collection from different publication houses, began at College Square in Kolkata on Tuesday. Christened ‘Boiparay Boi Utsab’, the week-long event in the city’s ...

Some festivals and events have become synonymous with the places they are held in, capturing the cultures & traditions of the local people and becoming their windows to the world, writes ...

Patna: CM Nitish Kumar inaugurated the Bihar Diwas celebrations on Saturday, marking the beginning of five days of festivities. He lit a ceremonial lamp and released balloons into the air to ...

Kolkata, whose residents take their reputation ... To Namita Gokhale, an author and a co-founder of the Jaipur fair, the surge in book-focused festivals – by some estimates there are now as ...

Later, there was the Ramakrishna Mission and the Brahmo Mission under the auspices of the Brahmo Samaj in Kolkata ... He was fond of food (my mother said he was capable of eating a whole chicken ...