There’s a break in the rains from the early monsoon so it was sunny but warm here in Hyderabad last Sunday. As usual I took off for Abids and first checked out the books at Chikkadpally.
The first find was a copy of ‘The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India’ by Gyanendra Pandey nicely encased in plastic sleeve. It looked like an academic book but the topic was interesting so I picked it up for a hundred rupees. Next find was a book I had read about earlier somewhere and I was pretty excited when I found a nice copy of ‘Joothan: A Dalit’s Life’ by Omprakash Valmiki. It is another title on caste that I have on my shelves. Someday I plan to read them all one by one. Then I hopped on to a bus to Koti from where I got into a 218 and got down at GPO. I found a copy of ‘Malabar and the Portuguese’ by K.M. Panikkar that seemed interesting. Also, I had heard the name of K.M. Panikkar somewhere recently. The book was first published in 1929 and the copy I found was reprinted in 1997 by Voice of India, New Delhi. The font is an ancient type and gave an atmosphere of the 1920s. I got it for fifty rupees only.
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