As the Ekushey Boi Mela drew to a close, an air of bittersweet nostalgia enveloped Suhrawardy Udyan and Bangla Academy. Thousands of book lovers, young and old, meandered through the colourful stalls, ...
In the early 2000s, when I was studying at Jahangirnagar University, on many afternoons, I would board the university bus to Dhaka and get off at Shahbagh, heading straight to Amar Ekushey Boi Mela, ...