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Not the Banglabazar it once used to be
Shopkeepers giving up businesses, publishers incurring losses amid pandemic
it was not too long ago that these book stores in the capital’s Banglabazar buzzed with students from nearby schools. But since the lockdown hit, their once-everbusy sales staff sit at the counters idly passing time. PHOTO: Palash Khan
A few yards south of the capital s Bahadur Shah Park, near Sadarghat terminal, is a bend where you will find the age-old Banglabazar Government Girls High School and missionary-run Heed International School. And surrounding them is a long series of book stores and stationery shops, where students and their guardians would throng to on a usual day to buy books, pens and pencils.