One of my new year resolutions was to buy fewer books at Abids and elsewhere as the house was overflowing with books I am yet to read. But last Sunday once again I had to break the resolutions as I found four books I couldn’t resist buying. It was warmer for this time of the year last Sunday as I set out for Abids.
The hauls last Sunday were in two sets. The first set I found was two volumes of Katha Prize Stories. I found nice copies of ‘Katha Prize Stories: Best of the 90’s’ edited by Geeta Dharmarajan and also ‘Katha Prize Stories: Vol 2’ edited by Geeta Dharmarajan.
‘Katha Prize Stories: Best of the 90’s’ had fifteen stories, the best of the previous ten volumes chosen by a panel of writers. Some of the stories were by M.T. Vasudevan Nair, Sundara Ramaswamy, Dilip Chitre and others.
‘Katha Prize Stories: Vol 2’ had nineteen stories and some of them were by Jayamohan, Vivek Shanbag, Gopinath Mohanty and others. One of the stories in this volume ‘Little Earthquakes’ by M.T.Vasudevan Nair is in the above ‘Best of the 90’s’ volume.
Somehow I hadn’t come across many books by Indian booksellers so far but last Sunday I found two titles that were by Indian booksellers though I was not familiar with their names. The first title I found was a copy of ‘Struggle All the Way: Story of a Book Seller’ by D.R. Krishna Murthy that I got for just fifty rupees.
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