There seems to be some kind of book fatigue settling in inside me of late. After buying a lot of books at Kolkata and Guwahati a couple of weeks ago and many books every Sunday at Abids since the beginning of 2026 I seem to be realizing that I may not be reading all the books I want to read. It was with this sense of fatigue that I set out for Abids last Sunday praying that I would not find any good book to buy.
Unfortunately, at my first stop at Chikkadpally itself I spotted a title that I wanted to read. It was a nice copy of 'A Book of Memory' by Sudhir Kakar. I had read one of his titles recently and wanted to read this book too so I bought it. I got it for a hundred rupees.
About six months back I had spotted a collection of short stories by Vijaydhan Detha about whom I had read a couple of months before. But somehow I did not buy it and one reason was that the seller asked for an astronomical sum for it. I was annoyed by his attitude and went away without buying it. Later I regretted it and told myself I would buy it the following Sunday. Unfortunately it was missing that added to my regret. I looked for it every Sunday hoping it would somehow surface again. Surface again did it last Sunday the copy of 'Dohri Zindagi' by Vijaydhan Detha that I grabbed as soon as I spotted it at a seller opposite the GPO. I don't know when I will be able to read it and if I begin reading it I don't know how long it will take me to finish the dozen plus stories in it because I read Hindi very slowly word by word.
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