Dhaka, Feb. 1 -- long Amar Ekushey Book Fair-2025, Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Saturday said Ekushey is an important identity, demonstrating the strong bond of unity and helping people of the country to find the temporarily invisible unity again.

"This bond transcends all distances, big and small, logical and irrational, temporary and long-lasting. That is why we rush to the Shaheed Minar during all kinds of national festivals, crises and disasters. There we find relief. We find peace. We find solutions," he said, adding that Ekushey has shaped their minds in this way.

Commemorating the memory of the martyrs of the Language Movement, the traditional festivity of the book fair began with this year's theme "July Gono Obbhuthyan: ...