The town I live now a day’s; don’t have a book shop dedicated to
literature. And life is taking such a shape that I hardly get any time to read
and ponder about the matter. Still the company of book, the process of flipping
over the pages and discovering something new exits me. I wish I could read
more...and after trying again and again buying at random I manage to continue
the habit of reading.
Only yesterday after five hours of exhausting scientific meeting and three
hours of journey to Jaipur (the city of JLF) we got hungry and wanted have a
quick bite. We saw a mall nearby and all
of us ventured in towards its food court. While coming back and waiting for the
car to arrive I saw a tent full of books in front of the mall
BOOKS SALE#
#sale Rs.200 /kg !
A quick scrolling showed James Joyce's Ulysses, Many Dickens and
Shakespeare and even many modern day bestsellers also. Book regardless of its
merit, value, genre @200/kg?
This degradation of value of books is someone new to the history of
mankind. You can argue by giving the stats of ebook, audio book in the market.
May be some are reading them... but are they also processing the information ?
Blame it on cell phone and various
apps. May be it is true. Till laptop we could sneak out time to read, to
process the information gathered in the gray matter and compartmentalize them
systemically. Gone are the days. Now we have become mere data generator to the
data hungry corporate and some unknown Big Brother. Pawn in the battle about
which we are not aware of .
I saw Gulzar,'s suspected poem. Always a Gulzar fan. SO looked at the Price
299..
How much? I asked
: Rs 150. The vendor replied.
Thanks Gulzar sahab... your
popularity still have some market sense.
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