Me and Chandru (well known journalist and innovative farmer Chandrashekar Belagere) went to Sapna Bookstall this morning. I hadn’t been to the new showroom and it is quite impressive. I will reserve my frustrations with Kannada booksellers for another occasion but today I wanted to note something both me and Chandru felt: all the books we wanted to buy were at least five hundred year old.
Is that a reflection on recent Kannada writing?
You tell me.
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Ankitha and Sahithya Bhandara have good collection of Kannada books.
Weren’t you guys at the wrong place looking for Kannada books? As HPN said, try Ankitha or Sahitya Bhandara. IMHO Sapna Bookstall is a ‘Marwari’ operation who would sell books by their weight:)
HPN, Manjunath, my point wasn’t about bookstores and what collections they possess. Rather, I was pointing out the paucity of interesting works that are coming out in Kannada. I felt like buying either old Kannada kavyas that i don’t own or some recent scholarship on those works. Except for a couple of new novels, there wasn’t anything that I found compelling among the books published in the last six months. I doubt whether a trip to Ankita or Sahitya Bhandara would make me feel any different.
Come on. This is too much. WHat about DVG’s Manku Thimmana Kagga? It is one of the foremost Kannada present to this generation. Also Bendre, et al
nope, it probably reflects your age (plus, as others have pointed out, poor store selection).
when in india, the cassettes i look after populate the ‘old movies’ section.
- s.b.
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