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Kolkata: booksbooksbooks

Cheaper than the fish fry: rare books, heavily discounted

Art, eat, same difference.

Contemporary Bengali literature, making Art out of SMSes.

Ghosts, and in the righthand corner, none other than Mr Holmes.

Beards: the key to the Bengali heart.

The Vietnam stall, bringing back memories of ‘Amar Naam, Tomar Naam, Vietnam’.

Right behind the Vietnam pavilion, the US stall, complete with half-sari clad Liberty Mashima

Statue of Liberty Mashima, US pavilion

Calcutta’s finest, with very little to do since Mr Rushdie was denied the freedom of the city.

More book fair traditions: pavement artists

Along with the name-on-a-grain-of-rice man, another old book fair tradition.

Lotus pond cleaners, ITC Shonar

Perhaps book fairs aren’t the best place for investment advice. Calcutta’s take on blue-chip stocks.

“My name is Joya Chitrakar, fourth-generation chitrakar.” From a family of painters in Mednipur.

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January 31, 2013

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books in India, Kalam 2013, Kolkata Book Fair

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One response to “Kolkata: booksbooksbooks”

shovonc

January 31, 2013

You crack me up.

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