Since 2008, I'm deeply attached to the Kolkata Book Fair as I participate as a volunteer and member of Indo-Latin American Association & Spanish Study Center. But this 2014 Book Fair is the most memorable experience till now in my life.
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| Our Pavilion |
As a participant, I worked not only in our well known pavilion but also we were invited to have seat in the pavilion Peru, the Focal theme of the Book Fair.
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| Me in our pavilion |
We were to explain the Peruvian culture and literature principally to the visitors who couldn't realize the Peruvian display of posters and books as all of these were presented in Spanish.
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| Our team with Francesca Denigri |
At the same time, we were to sell our translated books
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| the visitors |
which included Poems of Peru, a travel log of Peru in Bengali ( Pothe Pothe Peru by Asesh Kumar Ray) , fourth edition of Natural History of Peru of Inca Garcileso de la Vega, Peruvian Traditions by Ricardo Palma etc. As we know that this is the melting pot of poets, singers, artists, I personally had to talk with contemporary Bengali novelist Abul Basar, composer and singer Anupam Ray etc when they visited our pavilion. Above all, our collaborated translation work Poems of Peru was also inaugurated in the presence of Peruvian Ambassador in India Javier Paulinich, poet Francesca Denigri and I was also a part as a translator of this work.
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| Reading program |
What made me more encouraged was to see the more people interested in Latin American and Spanish culture and their vivid interaction with us, which seems far better then the scenario of 2008 when I participated for the first time.
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| Me with another participant Arjun in Peruvian pavilion |
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