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- Cheaper than the fish fry: rare books, heavily discounted
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- Art, eat, same difference.
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- Contemporary Bengali literature, making Art out of SMSes.
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- Ghosts, and in the righthand corner, none other than Mr Holmes.
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- Beards: the key to the Bengali heart.
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- The Vietnam stall, bringing back memories of ‘Amar Naam, Tomar Naam, Vietnam’.
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- Right behind the Vietnam pavilion, the US stall, complete with half-sari clad Liberty Mashima
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- Statue of Liberty Mashima, US pavilion
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- Calcutta’s finest, with very little to do since Mr Rushdie was denied the freedom of the city.
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- More book fair traditions: pavement artists
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- Along with the name-on-a-grain-of-rice man, another old book fair tradition.
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- Lotus pond cleaners, ITC Shonar
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- Perhaps book fairs aren’t the best place for investment advice. Calcutta’s take on blue-chip stocks.
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- “My name is Joya Chitrakar, fourth-generation chitrakar.” From a family of painters in Mednipur.
You crack me up.