One of our newest and snazziest looking libraries. Here are some pics: JustBooks Electronic City is an active community service provider within Phase 1 of Electronic city and its environs. Here are details about the library as available on the ECity portal.
Archive for February, 2012
JustBooks Electronic City
Posted in Electronic City on February 29, 2012 |
Weekend reading
Posted in Books on February 26, 2012 |
Guess what are men reading from in the toilet? Chetan Bhagat is currently touring Australia and attending Book fairs over there. He delivered a keynote closing address (?) at the Perth Writers Festival, a report of which is here. Books or E-Books? A simple poll and its results here. Should give you an inkling of [...]
A(r)ching for India
Posted in Announcements, Books, Fiction on February 26, 2012 |
India as a country has always been known to captivate tourists, looking for an experience unlike any other. Well, it appears that one of the most widely read writers in English fiction – Jeffrey Archer – has been smitten too. So much that Master storyteller Jeffrey Archer, who has been visiting India for the past [...]
Not pottering around anymore
Posted in Happenings, Humour on February 26, 2012 |
We hear that Ms. Rowling had decided to do a mid-career shift of sorts: Rowling, who is worth an estimated 530 million pounds, said that she has signed a deal to publish her first novel for adults, which will be nothing like Potter books that have been international best-sellers and inspired a series of hit [...]
JustBooks at the launch of ‘Pickles from Home’
Posted in Announcements on February 25, 2012 |
PICKLES FROM HOME - THE WORLD OF A BILINGUAL is the 3rd book by Sugata Srinivasaraju, who has earlier written Phoenix and Four Other Mime Plays (2005), which won the Karnataka academy of letters’ translation prize, and Keeping Faith with the Mother Tongue – The Anxieties of a Local Culture (2008). He has also edited and introduced A Window On The Wall (2010), the [...]
Belgaum, here we come
Posted in Announcements, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on February 24, 2012 |
A couple of reasons why we want to be in Belgaum: The Government of Karnataka has proposed making Belgaum the second capital of the State of Karnataka with the recently upcoming second state administrative building Suvarna Vidhana Soudha. A high population with the urban area estimated in 2011 as 6,10,189. Belgaum has an average literacy [...]
A centenary in India by OUP. Wow!
Posted in Publishing, Publishing Industry, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on February 24, 2012 |
The TOI of today reports that: Publishing giant Oxford University Press(OUP), said to be the largest academia press in the world, will mark 100 years of its presence in India with a biography of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and republishing its very first book in the country. Oxford in India publishes over 400 books annually with schoolbooks occupying [...]
Bio on Uncle Pai
Posted in Publishing on February 22, 2012 |
DNA, Bangalore reports today that the folks at Amar Chitra Katha have a surprise for their fans / readers: On his first death anniversary on February 24, a tribute to the creator of the series, Anant Pai, will be out on the stands. The comic biography will trace the story of the man who left behind a vast [...]
Coming soon….
Posted in Announcements, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on February 21, 2012 |
More soon, too!
Vive Le France
Posted in Uncategorized on February 20, 2012 |
JustBooks RMV Branch member, Seema Menon was the lucky winner of the ‘Holiday to Paris’. She visited Paris with her husband, Mahesh Menon, a Merchant Navy officer currently in India on a long sabbatical till March 2012 in connection with their son’s board exams. The holiday to Paris was arranged through meticulousp planning & execution [...]
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