Curtain falls on Ekushey Book Fair with great sale

As another cycle of book publishers’ calendar completed with the fall of the curtain on the Ekushey Book Fair 2014 on Bangla Academy premises and at the adjacent Suhrawardy Udyan Friday, bookworms thronged to the ‘capital of books’ not to miss the last chance to collect some of the new entries. Commemoration of language martyrs, festivity of Falgun and above all the earnestness of the writers and readers alike to have the smell of new books have gradually led to the staging of one of the rarest example of the spectacle of a nationhood centring its language and literature, and this year was no exception. The publishers also heave a sigh of relief for ending their most busy moth of the year having a ‘great sale’, according to a news agency.