About

Lilavati's FairBengal

Digital Fair of Bengal

Lilavati's FairBengal is a community entrepreneurship project at Lilavati Publishers and Cheenta Academy. We bring the publications and artisan craft from Bengal to the world.

Abanindranath Tagore · Journey's End, c. 1913 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

What we do today

You tell us what you want from Bengal — a book, a Dokra piece, a Sharadiya box — and the catalogue answers with cards. A person at our desk in Kolkata confirms a landed price within 24 hours: goods, courier, duty and our fee, itemised, with a photograph of the actual copy. You pay once; we buy from the stall and ship it to your door.

Three fairs, one address

How buying works

1Ask in your own wordsA title, an author, a kind of thing, a budget. Items from our stalls answer at once with their listed price; anything else is marked “to be sourced”.
2A person confirms within 24 hoursGoods, courier, duty and our fee, itemised, with a photo of the actual copy. Two lanes: economy or express.
3Pay once, deliveredDuty is prepaid where it applies. Lost or damaged? We re-ship or refund — no returns to arrange.

Bengal, as its painters saw it

Kalighat painter, unknown · Gaur and Nitai, 19th century · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Abanindranath Tagore · The Passing of Shah Jahan, 1902 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Kalighat painter, unknown · Kalighat pat, 19th century · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Who is behind it

Lilavati's FairBengal is run as a community entrepreneurship project by Lilavati Publishers and Cheenta Academy in Kolkata. The stalls belong to the publishers and artisans themselves; we run the fair, the desk and the parcels.

Office

22 Lake PlaceKolkata 700029West Bengal, India

Write to us

customer.support@fairbengal.com

For an order, a request, a stall, or anything else about the fair.

Run a stall

Publishers, artisans and performers are welcome — the stall is yours to run, and the fair brings the buyers.

Apply for a stall →