Recently I requested a friend visiting India (Bangalore) to purchase for me
two Goa related books. After a three-week stay, the friend returned without
the books. Apologetically they said, "We went to a major bookstore to purchase
the books, but those two books would need to be ordered, and it would take a
month for delivery.
Regards, GL.
On Wednesday, December 27, 2023 at 07:08:55 AM EST, Sajan Venniyoor
<[email protected]> wrote:
Scarcely a week goes by without a literature festival or a book fair somewhere
in India. Sometimes more than one in the same city, I'm told. You can barely
squeeze through the streets of Delhi, Bangalore or Kolkata without tripping
over a writer of YA fiction, or a newly minted poet clutching her first slim
volume of verse and hurrying to a panel discussion on "The Poetry of Protest in
Subaltern South Asia".
Leonard is organizing the Goa Book Fair in Margao from 4-8 Jan 2024. The World
Book Fair will be held in Delhi from 10-18 Feb 2024. The Jaipur Literature
Festival is from 1-5 Feb.
Isn't there a 2023/24 GALF edition?
The other day, I visited the recently opened The Bookshop Inc at Lodhi Colony
in Delhi. It opened soon after the original The Bookshop at Jorbagh pulled down
its shutters for the last time in October this year.
The Bookshop at Jorbagh was one of those 'iconic' bookshops of Delhi (which, as
far as I can tell, means a 50-year old bookshop run by some kids who inherited
it from their father). The late great KD Singh, founder owner of The Bookshop,
had passed away of cancer in 2014, and his daughter kept the shop going for a
while.
However, some of the employees of The Bookshop (and Singh's business partner,
Sonal Narain) started their own Bookshop clone in Lodhi last month, so all is
not lost. When I dropped in on a Saturday evening, the place was packed with
Fabindia-clad Delhiites buying slim volumes of medieval Arabic poetry in
translation, and there was a book reading by Manjula Padmanabhan in a tiny
space at the back. The shelves were laden with excellent books, evidently
chosen with great love and care. The in-store Christmas tree was made entirely
of books.
Earlier this month, I was at Broadway in Panjim, picking up random books more
out of habit than need. There was a book by PS Sreedharan Pillai (the Governor
of Goa) on display; probably his 200th, as the man is an inveterate scribbler.
"Do you know this author?", I asked the person at the counter. She had never
heard of him. Damn, I miss Khalil.
Sajan
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