Which Khalil Sajan Gibran or the owner of Broadway?
Sent from my iPhone > On 28-Dec-2023, at 6:29 PM, 'Gilbert Lawrence' via The Goa Book Club > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > -- > *** Please be polite and on-topic in your posts. *** > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Goa Book Club" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-book-club/CA%2B2EU71DHfemb_4S2K8ZYsJhR0foMpXTTfeYL77LJJ%2BxJsUikQ%40mail.gmail.com. > -- > *** Please be polite and on-topic in your posts. *** > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Goa Book Club" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-book-club/1415288746.3339248.1703730092017%40mail.yahoo.com. -- *** Please be polite and on-topic in your posts. *** --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Goa Book Club" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-book-club/53757AD2-5EEA-4810-B4B5-F950A920EED5%40gmail.com.
