Early in the morning while reading the Sunday papers in an Irani cafe I thought it would rain during the day as it was cloudy and there was also a light drizzle when I stepped out to go home. But after I got ready and was ready to leave for Abids it was bright and sunny.
The first find was a copy of 'The Man of Fifty' by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe with a seller at the RTC Cross Roads just before Chikkadpally. I bought it because it had a foreword by A.S. Byatt and got it for fifty rupees. It is a short book of less than seventy pages that I can read in a couple of hours but when I will find that much time is the question.
At one of the sellers at Chikkadpally I found a copy of 'All the Way to Heaven' by Stephen Alter, his memoir of a childhood spent in Mussoorie. Though he is an American he spent all his life in India so this seems very interesting.
The best find of last Sunday was a copy of 'The Best of Raja Rao' Katha Books, that I almost did not buy because I hesitated before checking out the books with this seller under a tree a little beside the Star of India cafe. Somehow I had decided to see as I had time and spotted this wonderful book with a pencil drawing of the author on the attractive cover. This has his essays, short stories, excerpts from his novels and more. It is the right thing to dip into occasionally. This did not come cheap though as I had to pay two hundred rupees for it.
The last book I found in a heap of fifty rupees books. I saw a copy of 'Ghosts by Daylight: A Memoir of War' and Love by Janine Di Giovanni, a war correspondent's memoir of her marriage, her work reporting on the war in Sarajevo. This seems very interesting as there are very few books by women war correspondents that I have read. This is the first.
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