Mamata Banerjee inaugurates 41st International Kolkata Book Fair

Conferring the CESC Sahitya Samman on veteran poet and winner of 1974 Sahitya Akademi Award Nirendranath Chakraborty, the Chief Minister touched on the book fair’s glorious history, since its origin in 1976, and called upon everyone to help organise this edition of the book fair in a peaceful manner. Costa Rican writer Roxana, who inaugurated the fair by hitting the ceremonial hammer 41 times, said the fair gave wonderful ways of interaction between the two countries.

She said the Costa Rican pavilion at the fair ground will present an overview of the country’s culture to the Indian audience and showcase her latest work that compares human interaction in a small city and a big city.