Kolkata: In a departure from erstwhile years, Bangladesh is absent from the database of participating countries astatine the 48th International Kolkata Book Fair, which volition footwear disconnected connected January 28, 2025. The just volition diagnostic Germany arsenic the focal taxable country, showcasing its affluent taste practice and literate legacy, organisers said.
Bangladesh is conspicuously missing from the database of participating nations, a connection by the Publishers and Booksellers Guild said. Guild president Tridib Chatterjee said, “Except for 2007 and 2021, the 2 years erstwhile the just could not beryllium held owed to unavoidable circumstances, Bangladesh had been a
regular fixture successful the publication just calendar.”
However, helium added, “In presumption of the existent concern successful the neighbouring state implicit the past 3 months, erstwhile adjacent visas are not being granted but for superior aesculapian emergencies, the Guild cannot marque immoderate determination connected its own. We person to question proposal from the Ministry of External Affairs for argumentation decisions and from the authorities authorities regarding instrumentality and bid concerns.”
—With PTI