Had been to the Book Exhibition at Palace Grounds on Saturday, with Anu. It was wonderful! And what made me really happy were the crowds. (No, I don’t love crowds, in fact I hate them… but it was good to see that there are many, many serious readers out there).
We splurged on the books…Anu had her list of “must-buys” and I picked up several books that I had been reading about, like “Sacred Games” by Vikram Chandra, “Shantanu”, “The Inheritance of Loss”, by Kiran Desai (for which she won the Booker Prize), two books by Paul Coelho (author of The Alchemist), a book on Brand Building – “One Land, One Billion Minds” (by Ramunjam Sridhar… incidentally Sunil worked with him at RK Swamy-BBDO) and “The Black Book” by Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, 2006 “who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures". Have started reading the last book and am really impressed by this writer’s style and the very evocative images that he paints. All the other books must wait… I am just waiting to read them. Also picked up “The Inscrutable Indian” by Anurag Mathur. Have read it before and remember how much I had enjoyed it… truly, truly hilarious – from the very first page!
Talking about books, would love to one day fulfill my childhood ambition of becoming an “author”. Only wonder if I have the self-discipline for it!
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