The age-old tradition of handing out free books to school students is facing obstacles this year. Publisher and affiliated officials are saying that they will be able to deliver books to primary school students on the 1st of January. Students of pre-primary and secondary students might not be as lucky as they're facing uncertainty.

Why and how did this happen? The Daily Star reporter Mohiuddin Alamgir is joined by Debjani Shyama in today's Straight from Star Newsroom to discuss the crisis.