Last Sunday at Abids I picked up a title a copy of which I had bought long back and that I had bought for just ten rupees or so I think. I do not remember buying it so I picked up the second copy. Only after I got home and checked my notebook did I realized that I had bought the copy of ‘Out of Africa’ by Isak Denisen/Karen Blixen in July 2007 for only five rupees! I do not know where that copy is now and also do not remember if I had read it or not.
Another find was a title I had seen a couple of months ago but had not felt like buying it. But when I saw it again last Sunday I picked up the copy of ‘Storylines; Conversations with Women Writers’ and got it for a hundred rupees. It is edited by Ammu Joseph, Vasanth Kannabiran, Ritu Menon, Gouri Salvi, and Volga.
There are lengthy interviews with seventeen well-known writers of various languages and I could recognize only a few of them like Nayantara Sahgal, Bama, Volga, Vasireddy Seeta Devi, Mridula Garg though I haven’t read books by few of them, and some like Pradnya Lokhande, Sarup Dhruv and so on I had no idea about their books. The book sounds very interesting and I plan to read one interview a day so that I can better understand these writers and their work.
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