Amar Ekushey Boi Mela
<i>Cops' stall attracts visitors</i>
Bibliophiles crowd the stall of Dhaka Metropolitan Police at the Amar Ekushey Boi Mela on the premises of Bangla Academy in the city yesterday.Photo: STAR
With a view to enhancing interaction between law enforcers and common people, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), for the first time, has set up a bookstall at the Amar Ekushey Boi Mela. Police constable Farhana Akhter, who was selling books in the stall, said they were getting good responses from the visitors and booklovers. A Dhaka College student Shahidul Islam, who bought a book titled “Samadhan Law Guide” from the stall, said he had bought the book to know the basic laws. Julhas Mallik, a Rajshahi University student, said he had purchased a book for his brother who was a police constable and would sit for an examination for promotion. “This stall has been set up to promote the message that there is nothing to get afraid of police rather they are there to serve the people”, Mohammad Jahangir Alam, in-charge of the bookstall, told The Daily Star yesterday. “We are here to reduce distance between people and police,” he added. Books written by police personnel and related to the police laws, and magazines published by the police are available in the stall, set up at the southern part of the Bangla Academy premises. A total of 110 new books arrived at the fair yesterday while gathering on the premises was usual like other working days. Discussion and cultural programmes were organised on the premises as per schedule. FIRST WEEK OF THE FAIRMeanwhile, as many as 727 new titles, covering a wide range of subjects, hit the book fair this year in the first seven days while the number was 551 last year in the same period. Books of poetry topped the list of new arrivals with 154 while novels got the second position with 129 titles. The sales centre of Bangla Academy has sold out books of around Tk 13.5 lakh in the first week, which is higher than that of the previous years in the first seven days.
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