{"id":691,"date":"2024-02-01T16:31:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T11:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jawed.in\/blog\/?p=691"},"modified":"2024-02-01T16:36:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T11:06:30","slug":"international-book-fair-kolkata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jawed.in\/blog\/international-book-fair-kolkata\/","title":{"rendered":"International Book Fair Kolkata"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I visited the Kolkata Book Fair and had a very good time. This is a must visit place for all book lovers. In fact its not limited to books but traditional music and arts are also exhibited. Though I don’t know the exact number, but I guess more than 800 stalls were put up for the books. And at any given time at least 4 amphitheaters have performances going on (simultaneously) in addition to the auditorium hall which is exclusively used for the panel discussions and award ceremonies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There is one full section devoted for food\/snacks etc. The organisers had made available drinking water pouches throughout the book fair. So you can just pick up a pouch and drink water from it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There is ample parking facility for 2-wheelers and 4-wheelers and the traffic is managed very smoothly. At no point will the visitor feel hassled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A visitor will need at least 3-4 hours just to have a cursory look at all stalls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The recommended strategy is to visit twice. First time to get a feel and locate the stalls which interest you. Then visit a 2nd time only to those stalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fair is organised by Kolkata Publishers and Booksellers Guild. The 47th edition of the book fair was held this year(2024). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is one of the largest book fairs in the world and the largest in Asia. An estimated 2 to 2.2 million people visit this fair in the 10-12 days that its held. This year it was held from 18th Jan to 31st Jan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/p>\nTags: 47th<\/a>, Captain Steel<\/a>, Chief Information Officer<\/a>, Jawed Ahmed<\/a>, Kolkata Book Fair<\/a>
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I visited the Kolkata Book Fair and had a very good time. This is a must visit place for all book lovers. In fact its not limited to books but traditional music and arts are also exhibited. Though I don’t know the exact number, but I guess more than 800 stalls were put up for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[117,79,78,14,116],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-47th","tag-captain-steel","tag-chief-information-officer","tag-jawed-ahmed","tag-kolkata-book-fair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jawed.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jawed.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jawed.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jawed.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jawed.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jawed.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/www.jawed.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jawed.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jawed.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jawed.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jawed.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}