My Experience at the Book Fair...
Oswin Barnabas V. II M.A English
I am happy to
narrate my experience at the Book fair 2017 and the Literary festival held by The Hindu. One of my professors
accompanied me. At the outset, we never planned of going together, however it
happened eventually when we met up. We
left Tambaram at 9 a.m and reached The
Hindu fest. at 10.30 a.m and were lucky to witness the discussion between
Shashi Tharoor and Gauri Viswanathan on Postcolonialism. It was followed by G. N.
Devy’s talk.
By afternoon, I
wanted to pay a visit to the Book Fair which was being held nearby. Although I am
not a voracious reader, still, I always have the desire and the curiosity to
know more about anything and that leads me to reading on my interesting zones.
As soon as we entered the fair we had lunch (sambar rice) and fruit salad and started to browse through the
books. I was looking for my favourite authors. I love reading the books of Hosseini,
C. S. Lewis and Dickens.
This time
however, I eventually came across the renowned writer Khalil Gibran’s book, an omnibus
volume, and quite a bulky one, that contained all of his writings. I love his use of
metaphors, sentence patterns and imagery. In the evening, we happened to meet some of my classmates and
continued walking through the fair. I was bored a bit because the professor
with me continued to purchase books till 7 pm (told you already i don’t read
much). The effect of demonetisation was evident throughout. Fortunately each
and every stall had a swiping machine. We carried his books in two big bags and
as we were literally blown down, we booked a taxi through one of our seniors
and proceeded back.
The experience
at the Literary Fest and the book fair was awesome. I met new people and came
across new terms which were uncommon to me. After dinner that night, I went to
bed immediately and had a sound sleep.
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