The Sunday Haul (on 04-05-2025)

 I was glad to be back at Abids last Sunday as I had missed going there since I was travelling in Pune. It was a bit hot when I stepped out of the house and headed to Chikkadpally before going to Abids. 

At a seller in Chikkadpally I picked up the copy of ‘The Wretched of the Earth’ by Franz Fanon that I had been seeing at the same place since about a month. I already have a copy but this copy I saw last Sunday had a different and attractive cover. Besides it looked almost brand new so I picked it up for a hundred rupees. 

With another seller at Chikkadpally I found yet another copy of ‘Art of Living’ by Epitectus translated by  Sharon Lebell that again I have a couple of copies of. I took it and later gave it to someone who follows me on Twitter and who I have been meeting since the past few Sundays at Abids. I got this book for fifty only. 

             A couple of months ago I had found a copy of ‘Viewlu Reviewlu’ by the revolutionary poet Sri Sri and since I read Telugu very slowly I am only half way through it. Sri Sri is a revolutionary poet whose verse stirs the blood when you hear him read it. I was lucky to find his ‘Mahaprasthaanam’ a couple of years ago, and last Sunday I found another of his titles. I found a copy of ‘Khadga Srishti’ at a seller in Chikkadpally. 

    

        At Abids the only title I found was a copy of ‘On Being the Right Size’ by JBS Haldane that wasn’t in such a good condition as a portion of the spine on the top was torn off. But I took it since it appeared to be a good collection of essays by JBS Haldane who had settled in India later in life. I got this title too for a mere fifty rupees. 

            I thought I knew the names of all books that Somerset Maugham until I saw one I had not seen anywhere. I found a copy of ‘The Explorer’ by Somerset Maugham that didn’t take me long to buy.