New Town Book Fair will be held at the fairgrounds between February 26 and March 7.

This will be the seventh edition of the fair and will have around 50 stalls including those by Ananda Publishers, Dev Sahitya Kutir and Penguin.

The fair will be inaugurated by Debashis Sen, chairman cum managing director of Housing and Infrastructure Development Corporation and other eminent guests will include poets Joy Goswami, Subodh Sarkar and theatre personality Debsankar Halder.

The highlight of the fair is the fifth national poetry festival, to be held on February 28 and March 1, 4pm onwards. A number of poets will congregate, recite and take part in a discussion on universality in contemporary Bengali poetry.