Home Is Where The Book Is

I’ve very fond memories of mulling over the books in the Fort Area. The spot beneath the VSNL building was an adda. Befittingly, once the building was constructed and the internet revolution was on, the bookwallah from the pavement was evicted. Once upon a time, that place was quite a lively intellectual area. It used to possess diminutive gems. An Aubrey Menon book in which he had inscribed a message for his sister, Kamala Das. Once I came across the first edition of Rajgopalchari and a s

by Ramu Ramanathan