Mela (Utsav) promises to be bigger this year, with the organisers attempting to give the fair a different flavour. The most popular event in Salt Lake's cultural calendar (not taking the Calcutta Book...

An 80-year-old man who had arrived in the city from Barishal, in present-day Bangladesh, before Partition was seen buying booklets on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the National Register of Citiz...

Author Mamata Banerjee said on Monday that her target was to write and publish 100 books as she is set to cross the 90-mark at this year’s Calcutta Book Fair. “It is going to be 91-92… I want to...

Introducing Saurabh Shukla to the audience at the Kolkata Literature Festival, held at the recently concluded International Kolkata Book Fair in association with The Telegraph, session moderator Samar...

Two Hindi books written by coal town-based art critic, littérateur and journalist Abhishek Kashyap, 41, are set to be released during the nine-day New Delhi World Book Fair being organised by Nation...

January:Milan Mela’s loss was Salt Lake’s gain. With the fairground opposite Science City still under renovation, the International Kolkata Book Fair was held at Central Park Fairgrounds for the ...

Official India has cut a sorry figure at the ongoing Frankfurt Book Fair, with the National Book Trust’s stall unattended by any of its officials and the Sahitya Akademi booth bereft of people, book...