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No Kolkata Book Fair till alternative site is found: Guild
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editor on 28 January, 2008 07:26:00
 
Kolkata (PTI): With the Calcutta High Court disallowing holding of the Kolkata
Book Fair at Park Circus maidan on environmental grounds and violation of
fundamental rights, its organiser on Monday decided not to go ahead with it till
an alternative site was found.
"We are awaiting a copy of the high court order and then decide whether to look
for an alternative site or not to hold the book fair this year at all,"
Secretary of the organisers -Publishers and Booksellers' Guild- Tridib
Chatterjee told PTI.
The court order came a day ahead of the inauguration of the 33rd Kolkata Book
Fair, the second largest in the world after Frankfurt.
Speaking after an urgent meeting of the Guild's Executive Committee, Chatterjee
said that the decision was unanimous. "Till we obtain a copy of the court order
and find an alternative venue, we are not going to hold the Book Fair."
To a question, he said the Guild was not considering challenging the order in a
higher court.   West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee described the
court order as 'very unfortunate'.