{"id":12595,"date":"2024-02-01T04:31:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T04:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecrimebd.net\/english\/?p=12595"},"modified":"2024-02-01T04:31:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T04:31:07","slug":"the-doors-of-the-fair-of-life-will-open-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecrimebd.net\/english\/news\/12595\/","title":{"rendered":"The doors of the Fair of Life will open today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Dhaka Bureau:<\/strong> On the first day of the month of language, Amar Ekush book fair will open today. There is a huge collection of books of poets, writers, literary people in this fair of the traditional life of Bengali speakers spread across the country and abroad. The fair grounds will be crowded with readers, book lovers, writers, writers, publishers for a month. After a week and a half of huge work, around 1,000 units of stalls, pavilions and other services have been arranged and arranged in the Bangla Academy premises and the historical Suhrawardy Udyan Square. This time again the motto of the book fair is &#8216;Read books, build country, Bangabandhu&#8217;s Bangladesh&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the traditional Amar Ekushe Book Fair today at 3 pm on Thursday. In the inaugural ceremony, the head of government will unveil the covers of some new books, including &#8216;Collected Works of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman: Volume-2&#8217; published by Bangla Academy. Along with that, Bangla Academy Literary Award of 2023 will be given. Culture Secretary Khalil Ahmed will attend the opening ceremony. Director General of Bangla Academy Kavi Muhammad Nurul Huda will deliver the welcome address. Academy president Selina Hossain will preside.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The doors of the 40th Book Fair will be opened for all after the inauguration. It will run continuously till February 29. The book fair will be open to all from 3 pm to 9 pm every day. Only holidays will run every Friday and Saturday from 11 am to 9 pm. On these two days there will be &#8216;Chishuprahar&#8217; from 11 am to 1 pm. Every day at 4 pm there will be seminar on the main stage, cultural programs in the evening. The new book will be unveiled at Suhrawardy Udyan. Participating institutions will sell books on a 25 percent commission. No one will be allowed to enter the fair after 8:30 pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On February 21 Martyrs&#8217; Day and International Mother Language Day, the fair will start at 8 am and continue till 9 pm. Children&#8217;s painting, recitation and music competitions will be organised. &#8216;Chittaranjan Saha Smriti Award&#8217; for the best book published in 2023 in the participating institutes and &#8216;Munir Chowdhury Smriti Award&#8217; will be given to three institutes in artistic judgement. Apart from this, a publisher will get the &#8216;Roknuzzaman Khan Dadabhai Memorial Award&#8217; for the most children&#8217;s books of good quality. The best organization for aesthetic stall will get the &#8216;Qayyum Chowdhury Memorial Award&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year, the book fair is spread over an area of about 1.5 lakh square feet in Bangla Academy and Suhrawardy Udyan. The number of participating publishing houses has increased by 34 compared to last time, so this time the unit has increased to 36. In all, 937 units have been allotted to 635 institutions. Among these, eight organizations and units have increased to 173 units of 120 institutions in the premises of Bangla Academy. Similarly, in Suhrawardy Udyan, 26 institutions have increased and 28 units have increased. There are 764 units of 515 publications in the park. However, the number of pavilions has increased to 37 this time. One of which is in the academy premises and the remaining 36 are in Suhrawardy Udyan. However, the stalls in the Little Magazine square, which has been moved to the tree-lined area near the open stage of the garden, have increased by 17 to 170.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As there is a metro rail station, the &#8216;outside path&#8217; has been removed a bit by bringing some behavioral changes. However, eight entrances and exits have been kept in total including TSC, Doyal Chatwar, Engineering Institution part and MRT Basing Plant. The food stalls are arranged along the boundaries of the Engineering Institution in such a way as not to disturb the attention of the visiting readers and shoppers. This time too, a children&#8217;s square has been kept on a large scale near the temple gate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This time the book fair will be polythene and non-smoking. Police, Ansar and various intelligence agencies are in charge of overall security. More than three hundred closed circuit cameras have been arranged. Adequate number of archways at entry and exit. There will be adequate lighting. There will be overall system of sprinkling water and daily mosquito repellent for cleanliness and regular dusting of the fair.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Keeping in mind vandalism and terrorist activities, the security system of the book fair: DMP Commissioner<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are past incidents of vandalism and militant activism around book fairs. Keeping these issues in mind, security measures have been taken at this year&#8217;s book fair. This is what Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Habibur Rahman said. DMP Commissioner Habibur Rahman said, &#8220;The Book Fair is a non-communal event. We have been threatened several times with this arrangement of the book fair. But this time there is no specific threat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The police have objected to several books at different times. When asked whether any such decision will be taken or not, the DMP Commissioner said, &#8220;The issue of writing a book is looked at by the Bangla Academy.&#8221; However, police will take action in case of any writing or subject which hurts religious sentiments which comes to the attention of the reader or is published in the media and if it is criticized and the law and order situation deteriorates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DMP Commissioner said, about 1 lakh people gather at the book fair every day. Therefore, members of various police organizations including Archway, Watch-Tower will be responsible for the safety issue. Police will also work in white clothes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhaka Bureau: On the first day of the month of language, Amar Ekush book fair will open today. 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