While some prefer to buy new books, there are still many who prefer visiting the book lane ( avenue road) to these merchants / book sellers who encourage people to re-use and re-cycle ( circulate) the ‘used’ books for the needy, on a longer term this provides a great value not only to the user but the others as the cost of the books keeps coming down, a single copy is used by many thus is a noble cause for environment support too…
Here are a few recommendations based on my interests & knowledge that according to me give the perfect Bangalore flavor. Give in yours, and add to this list. Anything & everything that you think someone from outside Bangalore or even a resident Bangalorean should see/visit/experience here. I am sure there is a lot more.
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Once upon a time there was only Deccan Herald & a few others. For most of us who had to know anything that is happening in Bangalore we would either have to wait for the newspaper the next morning or switch on to the 7.30 regional news on Doordarshan. Needless to say a lot has changed since.
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The next time you’re walking down MG Road and your navigation system says “old books”, turn into Shrungar Shopping Centre. One of the shops that you will run smack into is “The Bookworm”. Krishna, the owner of this bookshop is a pleasant, young man and very, very helpful. He has a reasonably wide collection and you’re bound to find at least half-a-dozen books with comfortable price tags. Krishna’s card describes his shop as a “treasure trove for used, new and rare books.”
Location : Inner Circle, Shrungar Shopping Centre on MG Road. You can reach Krishna on 9845076757. (He has another store off Brigade Road.)
- If you are a keen book lover, you must contact Klub Class. Why?
The Bangalore Book Festival is here, organized by Bangalore Booksellers and Publishers Association (BBPA) and Klub Class, to be held at the Palace Grounds from September 21st to 30th, 2007. If you wish to avail a special additional 10% discount, free entry to the arena hosting more than 300 stalls then you should lay your hands on book tokens.
Hot favorites of the West, book tokens will be on sale in the city soon in the run up to the fourth edition of the Bangalore Book Festival. The festival features both Indian and international publishing houses. These book tokens entitle buyer special concessions, priced at Rs. 40 each, also double up as a pass; two persons can get into the exhibition using one token. Sale of book tokens will be closed once the festival begins. Entry is free for children and students…
Those who do not have tokens may have to buy Rs. 20 entry tickets. But will not be entitled for special concessions that tokens offer, the initiative of these tokens is introduced for the first time in the country and may be considered as a regular feature…
Further details >> Klub Class, 35/2, Park Road, Park Manor, Tasker Town, tel: 41132530-31.
Inspired by contemporary Indian authors, Betsy Karel went to Bombay to find visual equivalents of the humanity, humor, mystery and psychological energy of these writers’ stories. Unlike many photographers who are drawn to the cacophony of urban India, she focused, often in an intensely personal way, on individuals going about their everyday street lives in this singular city. Patiently waiting amidst the bustle of Bombay, home to more people than the entire continent of Australia, she captures a poignant lyricism in the familiar.
As individuals transform public spaces into private places, forging islands of intimacy, she encounters the true “jadoo” of Bombay and its people. To accompany the photographs, the globally acclaimed author Suketu Mehta has written a companion piece about his boyhood in Bombay. The book also includes an excerpt from Ardashir Vakil’s Beach Boy.
Details
Book Launch at Oxford Bookstore
Thursday 2nd August, 2007
6 pm onwards
Oxford Bookstore, Leela Galleria
Leela Palace Hotel
Contact: 080 4115 5222
Tasveer presents “Next to Each Other, Bombay Jadoo”
A show of photographs from Betsy Karel’s Bombay Jadoo
followed by “Art of the Matter”: A dramatized reading on Bombay by Kimaaya
Friday 3rd August, 2007
6:30 pm onwards
Tasveer, Sua House
26/1 Kasturba Cross Road
Bangalore 560 052
Contact: 080 2212 8358
About the author: Betsy Karel, born in New York City in 1946, now lives in Washington, DC. She worked as a photojournalist in the 1970s and early 80s, winning awards. In 1998, after an absence of 15 years, she returned to photography to participate in The Way Home, a book and national exhibition on homelessness in America. During the past nine years, Karel has made numerous trips to Mumbai, creating the images in Bombay Jadoo. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Yale University Art Gallery, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the John F. Kennedy Library.
For those of us who still enjoy the experience of browsing through & the touch & feel of numerous books, then this lending library is definitely a wonderful place to be a member.
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Hmmm…why do I buy books when I know for sure I won’t be reading them beyond the day of their purchase? For fun and the heck of it. Mostly, I don’t know. I do suspect that, in a previous birth, I must have been a squirrel or a chipmunk, hoarding food for the lean times and this attitude is now spilling over. I justify to myself and my better half about buying books for my ‘twilight’ years. Both of us know that I’m kidding. For I don’t expect the twilight years till I’m perhaps 90+ and father time gets the better of me. Until then, I fantasise about packing a dozen books each year, taking off to some lonely island, reading to my hearts content and then, when I’m bored by it all, coming back to namma Bengalooru and the urban chaos that we put up with. *Sigh*
With ’second hand’ bookstores like Blossoms in Church Street around, one can’t help but revel in buying, buying, buying. When you just can’t afford them first hand, cool your heels for some time and voila, you’ll find them second hand. I visited the place yesterday after a long time and went amok buying up books and generally making up for lost time. I’ve also taken a couple of pics of some verrrryyy creative posters for you which I’m sure you’re gonna love. Here they are.
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SL Bhairappa’s latest novel, Avarana was slated for release in the city yesterday, and rest of the world a little white later. I was hoping to get hold of a copy, but it looks like all copies of the first set of prints have been pre-sold and there is none available in the market! My guess is that most of the copies would have got sold in the US, as the publishers Sahitya Bhandara have a good sales network and online presence in the country.
Image source: Vijaya Karnataka ePaper
VK reports(the page is mixed with another story..) that more copies will be made available in the city on Feb 9th, but knowing how Bhairappa’s works sell, you would be better off reserving a copy if your book vendor gives you such an option.
