DHAKA, March 1, 2023 (BSS) - A four-day "32nd New York Bangla Boi Mela", 
under the initiative of Muktadhara Foundation, will start from July 14 at 
Jamaica Performing Arts Center (JPAC) in New York, USA. 

The slogan of this year's New York Bangla Boi Mela is 'Bangabandhu's 
Instruction in the Globalization of Bangla Language, Literature and Art'.
 
Marking the book fair, the Muktadhara Foundation today held a press 
conference at the National Press Club in the capital, said a press release 
here.
 
Bangla Academy President Selina Hossain, New York Bangla Boi Mela-2023 
organising committee Dr Abdun Nur, Bangla Academy Director General poet 
Muhammad Nurul Huda, Cultural Personality Ramendu Majumdar, National Book 
Center Director Poet Minar Mansur, writer Anisul Haque, journalist Mozammel 
Babu, former Chairperson and Adviser of the Muktadhara Foundation Professor 
Dr Zia Uddin Ahmed and its founder Biswajit Saha, spoke, among others, at the 
press conference.
 
Some 25 publishers have already registered to join the fair which will 
continue till July 17.

Muktadhara Foundation is a New York-based non-profit literary-cultural 
platform of Bangla speakers of South Asian origin now living in North 
America. Most of them are from Bangladesh but are also from India and other 
parts of South Asia. 

The foundation has been arranging the fair since 1992.