There seems to be no giving up on buying books even in 2026 despite a decision I made not to buy any more books at least for a couple of months. So, last Sunday, when I spotted a book with a seller in the RTC X Roads I felt I had to buy it. I found a nice copy of ‘Banaras: City of Light’ by Diana L. Eck that had a nice plastic jacket sealing the cover. I had found a copy of ‘India: A Sacred Geography’ by Diana L. Eck sometime back though I haven’t read it yet. I plan to read ‘Banaras’ along with other books on Banaras like ‘Aimless in Banaras’ by Bishwanath Ghosh I had found sometime back, and also ‘Varanasi’ by the famous Malayali author, M. T. Vasudevan Nair. I bought Diana L. Eck’s book on Banaras for hundred rupees.
Travel books seemed to the theme of my haul last Sunday as I
found yet another travel title. I spotted a small sized book in a corner with
the Penguin logo. When I picked it up for a closer look I read on the cover the
title ‘Letters from Italy’ by Goethe. I was thrilled to find it and more
thrilled when the seller asked just twenty rupees for it. It is so short that
it can be read in just under an hour or so. I stopped adding more titles to my
haul after this find and came back home.
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