This is how the my date of 1/1/11 was spent. All in all it was a good fair -though it was much smaller in comparison with the World Book Fair -but still it was large enough. Company of Meenakshi and Manjari was also great. In the fair I bumped into my ever-smiling friends Sakhi and Mahua -it was good to see them.
Besides these, I got six more books which either are references or meant for my cousins. For myself, I bought only three books, one each about Swami Vivekanand and Jhansi Ki Rani Laxmibai and a collection of tribal folklore of India. Vani Prakashan’s collection somehow did not sound great to me. Pustak Mahal and Bhartiya Jnanpith were also nice in terms of variety of books. Lagging behind were Rajkamal and then Sahitya Akadami’s stalls. By the way, National Book Trust’s stall was easily the best among the ones I visited. I always wanted to buy a copy of it but did not know who the publisher was. Avoiding indulgence was rewarding and I came across the Hindi thesaurus by Arvind Kumar published by National Book Trust. For example, yesterday, I had almost bought a couple of thesauruses from Rajkamal Prakashan but, curbing my bubbling desire, I decided to buy them in the second scan. The second big benefit is that I get to compare prices and quality of the books on same subject from different publishers. Bloomsbury Publishing USA V&S Publishers Magic for Fun Pustak Mahal Merriam-Webster OUP USA Villard Books Studera Press R. I make notes for the rest of the books and buy them in ones or twos when I would have finished the first lot bought. Magic Tricks Book In Hindi published by : Oxford University Press, USA Greenwood International Anvil Publishing, Inc. We associate with authors, editors, scientists, libraries, and other academic members of the research group to generate, communicate, and enable access to the scientific and academic. For the past 10 years, Pustak Mahal has been identified with high quality academic-level books. I get to buy only those books that I really want to read immediately. We are one of the leading distributor on all competitive books. The foremost one is that I do not go on a book-buying spree. In the second scan, which is much quicker, I pick books that I want to buy. Meanwhile I keep deciding which books I want to pick up. The first scan is only for seeing what’s out there. I don’t purchase books in my first scan of such fairs. Weaving my way through a crowd of people, curiously looking at books, I hopped from one stall to another. I recognized a number of faces there though they could not recognize me. Almost everyone in Hindi publishing knows Kavita Kosh and therefore a certain name Lalit Kumar. Roaming around in the fair I had an interesting realization that a lot of people present there knew me (albeit not by face). I had decided that I would give preference to Hindi publishers because English books I, anyway, read all the time. I moved forward at a leisurely pace visiting different publishers.
Seeing the same books still of their racks was a nice experience. Their Vishwa Prasiddha Shrinkhala was my favorite -but since long I have not touched any of those books. I have read a lot of their books during my school-days. Delhi Book Fair is organized by India Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO) and The Federation of Indian Publishers (FIP).Īs I entered Hall 6 of Pragati Maidan, the first stall that came on my way was that of Pustak Mahal.
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