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 [...]
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JustBooks at the launch of ‘Pickles from Home’
Posted in Announcements on February 25, 2012 |
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 [...]
Coming soon….
Posted in Announcements, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on February 21, 2012 |
More soon, too!
Munnudi now up and running!
Posted in Announcements, Munnudi, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on January 20, 2012 | 5 Comments »
The first of our regional language books library offering - ‘Munnudi’ – opened today at Basavanagudi. Eminent author, poet, script writer and four years’ Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award winner Jayant Kaikini lit the lamp at the inauguration ceremony. Sugata Srinivasaraju, Associate Editor, South, Outlook graced the occasion as well and introduced Jayant to those present at [...]
Kolkata awaits JustBooks
Posted in Announcements, Kolkata, Salt Lake City, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on December 27, 2011 |
The wait will now be officially over on January 9th when JustBooks opens up in Sector 1, Salt Lake City! We’re almost there…….
The JustBooks story starts soon in Chennai with A for Adyar
Posted in Announcements on December 20, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Our 300th post here. An occasion we thought we will use to announce our entry into the one state in South India that we were not present : Tamil Nadu! Specifically, Chennai! Book lovers in the great city, rejoice. JustBooks is pulling out all stops starting up its first library soon in Indira Nagar. Only the [...]
Our Kondapur (Gachibowli) library bowls residents over
Posted in Announcements, Kondapur, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on December 19, 2011 |
Man, it was an awesome sixer of a start at our Kondapur library this recent Saturday. Residents were clean bowled by the library, some of them going on record to say that they have never seen a library of this standard, class and books! Here are some pics from the event: Our next store opening [...]
K for Kochi
Posted in Announcements, Kochi, Pannampilly Nagar, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on December 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
*Sigh* It is becoming a shade repetitive now. Everytime a new library of ours opens up in a community, there’s this amazing response from the community and members! And so it has been with our very first library that we opened in India’s most literate state – Kerala – in the city of Kochi. Panampilly [...]
JustBooks at the Bangalore Book Fair 2011
Posted in Announcements, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on November 24, 2011 |
Here’s a preview. Report coming up on Saturday. Stay tuned!
Paris Holiday
Posted in Announcements, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on November 9, 2011 |
France is not for nothing, the world’s favourite destination! Even we are acknowledging that, what with our offer to send a new member on a free trip to Paris. Here’s the deal: What are you waiting for? Sign up quickly and bank on your lucky stars now!


