The Ekushey Book Fair or Omor Ekushey Boi Mela (Bengali: অমর একুশে গ্রন্থ মেলা Ômor Ekushe Grontho Mêla "Book Fair of the Immortal 21st"), popularly known as Ekushey Boi Mela (একুশে বই মেলা Ekushe Boi Mêla "Book Fair of the 21st") or Ekushey Grontho Mela is the national book fair of Bangladesh. It takes place over whole month of February each year, and is dedicated to the agitators who died on 21 February 1952 in a demonstration calling for the establishment of Bengali as one of the state languages of former united Pakistan.
Read more about Ekushey Book Fair: History, Importance, Structure, Ekushey Boi Mela 2008
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