Flick or Lit?

There is the book…and then there is the movie based on that book. If you are like me, you want to read your book and then when, hopefully at least a year later, the movie comes out, you go out with your best friend to watch it. Then, you come out shake your head and [...]

Memory flashes from the Book Fair…

It seems like the lull after the storm. January is a complete fog in our minds. First there was the  big move into a new office space, followed by the Book Swap & Meet and then the crazy (but fun!) gearing up for the World Book Fair stall and finally 10 days of being on [...]

What’s “Megawsome”?

What’s the point of being in the book business, which is a business of words really, if we can’t attempt every now and then to create a new word and see if it will stick and come back to us after a few days/ decades. SO, the new word we have for you is: Megawsome [...]

Useful Tips and Objective Observations

We’ve become Book Fair veterans…well sort off. We’ve been at two Delhi Book Fairs and this current one which is the mother lode for many big and small book businesses-The World Book Fair Here are some thoughts if you are planning to come here ( If you aren’t you should! you should!) 1. Parking: The [...]

The Difficulty of Being Good ( No ref to Mr. Gurcharan Das’s book)

The experience of being at the book fair is an exhilarating one. There are people-excited people, tired people, curious people, even some jaded people but the one kind of people that have caught our attention most are the little people. Kids ( including teenagers here) are often accompanied by their parents ( or is it [...]