I attended the Delhi Book Fair at Pragati Maidan, and noted that the diversity of the madding crowds transcended class, community, religion and nationality, unlike the usual suspects at the Crosswords and Oxfords of the country.
One stall in particular was bursting at the seams with voracious readers.
Was it Penguin? No.
Was it Sage? No.
Was it Katha? No.
The name of the stall: ‘English Novel – Rs 25/- only’.
One man emerged triumphantly with 50 books (yes, I counted) in a plastic bag, most in mint condition, and in hardback.
As I tried to get a foothold into the stall, an elderly gentleman asked the man in charge of collecting the moolah, with disbelief,” Yeh zyaada sastha tho nahi ho gaya (isn’t this price a tad too less)?”
I picked up politically incorrect Bill Maher’s New Rules. I would have fished for some more, but there were two many armpits in my nose (akin to a Mumbai local), and the couple in front of me looked like they weren’t going anywhere for the next decade.
Tags: bill maher, book, crossword, Delhi, fair, katha, local, Mumbai, new rules, oxford, pengin, politically incorrect, Pragati maidan, sage
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