Chief Adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus has inaugurated the month-long Amar Ekushey Book on Saturday evening.
Inaugurating the Amar Ekushey Book Fair-2025, the CA said Ekushey is an important identity, demonstrating the strong bond of unity and helping people of the country to find the temporarily invisible unity again.
“This bond transcends all distances, big and small, logical and irrational, temporary and long-lasting. That is why we rush to the Shaheed Minar during all kinds of national festivals, crises and disasters. There we find relief. We find peace. We find solutions,” he said, adding that Ekushey has shaped their minds in this way.
Commemorating the memory of the martyrs of the Language Movement, the traditional festivity of the book fair began with this year's theme "July Gono Obbhuthyan: Notun Bangladesh Binirman" (The July Uprising: Rebuilding a New Bangladesh).
A total of 708 publishing houses are participating in this year’s fair, with 99 stalls located at the Bangla Academy premises and 609 in Suhrawardy Udyan.
There will be a total of 37 pavilions, including one at Bangla Academy and 36 in Suhrawardy Udyan.
The Little Magazine corner is set up under the trees near the open stage in Suhrawardy Udyan, with approximately 130 little magazines allocated stalls.
Additionally, 74 organizations will participate in the Children’s Corner.
This year’s Ekushey Book Fair will be open daily from 3pm to 9pm, and on public holidays from 11am to 9pm.
Additionally, except for February 8 and 15, a special Children’s Hour will take place on Fridays and Saturdays from 11am to 1pm.
There will be a one-hour break for lunch and prayers.
On February 21, in observance of International Mother Language Day, the fair will run from 8am to 9pm.