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35th New York International Bengali Book Fair opens in US
The 35th New York International Bengali Book Fair 2026 opened on Friday at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center in New York, drawing writers, publishers, artists and Bengali-speaking communities from across North America.…
The Story in Brief
The 35th New York International Bengali Book Fair 2026 opened on Friday at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center in New York, drawing writers, publishers, artists and Bengali-speaking communities from across North America. Organised by the MuktoDhara Foundation under the theme 'The More Books, The More Life', the four-day fair runs till May 25.
Inaugurating the event, economist Rehman Sobhan said Bangladeshis have become a visible community in the US and will emerge as an integral part of American society. He stressed preserving accurate historical discourse on Bangladesh's Liberation War. Sobhan received the MuktoDhara Lifetime Achievement Award. Publishers from Bangladesh and Kolkata are taking part.
The Indian Opinion
The fair's theme spotlights books as life-giving, yet the event risks being reduced to a diaspora networking exercise. Sobhan's call for accurate Liberation War history is timely but often simplified into nationalist tropes. The real test: will the fair feature dissenting voices or only mainstream narratives from both Bangladesh and Kolkata publishers? Numbers on visitor diversity and book sales will reveal if it's truly inclusive or just another community photo-op.
Source: millenniumpost.in
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