It was another hot day last Sunday in Hyderabad. The sun was blazing down as I reached Abids to prowl the lanes looking for good books to pick up at the Sunday second-hand book market. The first find was a copy of ‘Recovering the Lost Tongue; The Saga of Environmental Struggles in Central India by Rahul Banerjee’ that is about the issues affecting environment in tribal areas in central India. I do not know when I will get to read it.
Later I met an X mutual, Srinivas, and we sat in Star of India and discussed the books we had picked up until then. He gave me a hardcover copy of a Telugu novel ‘Salaam Hyderabad’ by Lokeshwar that he told me was based in Hyderabad, and urged me to read as he had found it to be very good. My Telugu is shaky but I try to read a couple of Telugu newspapers every Sunday, and had also read a couple of Telugu novels a long time back. I have to take out time to read it one of these days
On the way to Abids in the morning I had seen the same copy of ‘The Price of Inequality’ by Joseph Stiglitz with a seller at Chikkadpally that I have been seeing since the past couple of weeks. I did not buy it since it appeared to be an intimidating tome though the subject was something I felt I should read. Anyway, in the evening I felt restless that I had not picked it up and also thought it had remained unsold for so long because I was destined to buy it. So I started off for Chikkadpally and picked it up for a hundred and fifty rupees.
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