Come winter and Calcutta Maidan is the primary location and nucleus of fairs and exhibitions.

Crafts Bazaar, held opposite Birla Planetarium, aims at helping poor craftsmen and handloom and other loom-based weavers by bringing their products in the limeling and displaying them before thousands of people.

Craftsmen and artisans from all over the country participate in this exhibition. The exhibition displays a wide range of products from handloom sarees to Kashmiri shawls, from linens and bedsheets to wooden and cane decorative pieces from the states of Mizoram and Tripura. Mattreses, handmade ornaments, mufflers, woollen garments, Gujrati and Rajasthani sarees, shawls and dress materials, crockery, wooden furnitures from Punjab, etc. are also available on the fair ground. Crafts Bazaar is generally held for two weeks and attracts many people.