Book Fair haul without Feluda adventures is impossible! The classics like ‘Pahare Feluda’ by Satyajit Ray to a special memoir like ‘Feludar Prothom Topshe’ by Siddhartha Chatterjee - for a Prodosh C Mitter fan, these books are a must for the collection
Photographs by Soumyajit DeyThe best of then and now - ‘Sera Baro Sukumar’ and ‘Lyej’ by Debarati Mukhopadhyay are unputdownable reads for young bibliophiles
Narayan Debnath’s ‘Sera Bantul the Great Samagra’ celebrates the best works of an icon of Bengali graphic novels
The love for the three musketeers - Tintin, Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus is perhaps an heirloom, passed from generation to the next
Popular books like ‘Radharani’ by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and stories of Nante Fante by Narayan Debnath in English translation are popular picks by young readers who want to delve deeper into Bengali literature, overcoming the language barrier
Sukumar Ray’s ‘Abol Tabol’, Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumdar’s ‘Thakumar Jhuli’ to ‘Rabindranath Tagore's ‘Sahaj Path’ - books that are the foundation stones of children’s literature keep the interest of new-age readers piqued
With the Kolkata Book Fair coming to an end on February 9, budding bibliophiles made the most of the Friday, adding their favourites to the personal libraries