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Delhi Book Fair – 11 to 15 Sep 2019
I
was very disappointed with Delhi Book fair that concluded yesterday. It was
small like an afterthoght, insignificant in scope without any classic
publisher, and amalgamated with college festivals and Food tech workshop and
stationery fairs. Govt publications like Sahita Kala and NBT and NSD and
Gyanpeet were there because they must have to be. Small bargain publishers did
not have anything worth spending evenings on - it is sad to hunt for a bargain and spend more time guessing and cussing
about finding a gem and rejoicing having found it. Why should booklovers
rejoice "one upmanship" of a bargain book find over the joy of
finding and sharing a classic with multitudes.
I love my
Delhi - where is the Delhi book fair of Winters and coldness and hot coffees
and reading Raji seth or Loren Eiseley or simple joys of mountain walk wit
Ruskin Bond? It is becoming unlivable in Delhi of show-offs and
non-bibliophiles, who now live in Ghettos in their own worlds. Is this the
degradation of times? I apologize on my gloomy language and thoughts - but the
bad news pours.
I
hope that the newly shifted Dariya Ganj market place flourishes in the coming
months. It is one perennial joy for booklovers - for my sundays and they had to
go ahead and touch it!!! Orwellian in repression, Kafkaesque in joylessness
these mindless acts..
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