Saturday, January 17, 2009

The 32nd Chennai Book Fair

Money can buy books, never knowledge.

For three years now the Chennai Book Fair is being conducted at the St George Anglo Indian Hr. Secondary School Chetpet. I visited the fair on 10th Jan as well as yesterday (16th Jan).

The new venue is definitely an improvement on the earlier Quaid-e-Millat College Grounds. The area is bigger, the stalls are wider. The arrangement is rectangular with wide aisles running both vertically and horizontally. The aisles facilitate easy movement. The horizontal interstices enable retracing of our steps to locate a shop we had seen earlier and decided to visit later. The earlier circular arrangement meant one couldn’t do this when the fair is crowded. Ample parking space is another great advantage.

In the RK Mutt Stall the representative congratulated me on selecting the book ‘The Christ we all Adore’ by Swami Ranganathananda. I thanked him for the compliment. I bought many books on Philosophy, Religion and Tamil Literature.

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