Last Sunday it was a bit warm after a week of relatively cool weather. My first stop was at Chikkadpally where I found a beautiful copy of 'Tales from Kathasaritsagara' translated by Arshia Sattar. I was looking for something like this, a collection of ancient tales and so grabbed it. I got it for two hundred rupees, a bit high but then it was a beautiful copy.
Later I reached Abids. There was not much of a crowd as it was the day after Ramzan festival and so some of the sellers at Abids were missing. A few minutes after reaching Abids I found a copy of 'Ake: The Years of Childhood' by Wole Soyinka. It is a memoir of the Nigerian writer, a genre I love to read. I got it for fifty rupees. Afterwards I sat in Bench restaurant with two of my bibliophile friends and had a long talk for more than an hour well until lunch time.
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