Selective Amnesia

Books & Bloggers

Spent the evening in the book fair currently on in Chennai. And came to the conclusion that bloggers permeate every strata of the society.

There are bloggers who write (books, I meant) and writers who occasionally blog. There are bloggers who sell books, and book sellers who blog. And then, there are the bloggers who buy the books written by the bloggers, from the bloggers who sell the books.

Met up with Badri Seshadri and K. Satyanarayan, both bloggers, and both of whom are at CricInfo. Offline, both of them have taken it up as their mission to sell good Tamil non fiction. And have been meeting with fairly good success in that venture. Their company, “Kizhakku Pathipagam” – East Publishing – was, I am told, one of the first to bring out Non Fiction biographical works. Wished I could have spent a little more time with them, and bought a book of them, but I am not really interested in reading about America’s success right now. Plus, I had already overshot my budget, having bought Kalki’s “Parthipan Kanavu” and Akilan’s “Vengayin Mainthan”. Plus booked for David Frawley’s “In search of the Cradle of Civilisation” & “The Myth of the Aryan Invasion”.

Hope to have a real good read this next few months.