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Continuing our coverage of JustBooks Vidyaranyapura, the library recently conducted a  book exhibition @ Mount Litera Zee School, North Bangalore on 27th August during the parents-teachers meeting. This event showcased reading, books & the library. The presence of our franchise owner  & JustBooks Marketing staff enabled a good interaction with parents & their wards – over [...]

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Yours Quizzically!

This seems to be a season of firsts. We’ve been featured, for the first time on Forbes, then Outlook Money, then Deccan Herald, then we open a first branch in proper Mumbai (see previous post!) and so on and so forth. I tell ya, there’s no stopping us! In a first again, we  shot some [...]

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JustBooks Founder and CEO, R Sundar Rajan has lately been a very busy man, inaugurating one library after another.  You can see the glow on his visage at these events. Yesterday @ JustBooks Yelahanka, with Vishwanath & Dharini, our franchisee partners: @ JustBooks, Kalidasa Road Mysore, chatting with the Chief Guest & Editor, Star of [...]

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We all love a good tune.  And you can’t get tunes any better than from the inimitable A.R Rahman himself!! Jai Ho! On our shelves are currently these two books on the maestro. So the excitement of having his official biography is almost palpable.  Penned by British television producer Nasreen Munni Kabir — who has [...]

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Well, its always nice to get some feedback about the service offerings of JustBooks, particularly on online sites which tout ‘ honest user reviews’ We came across a member of our Vijaya Bank Colony branch, Nemali, writing about us here on Mouthshut.com Iam enjoying myself by getting to read so many books at just 200Rs [...]

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Its ‘Athithi Devo Bhava’ time

Indian readers of contemporary English fiction are reaping a rich harvest as top British and American authors head to India to promote their books. Best-selling names Ken Follet, Peter James and Wilbur Smith are the latest to chart out trips to the country. Full story here (Source: Siliconindia.com)

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One for the record books

With a view to inculcate the reading habit among people of Gujarat, especially children, the Narendra Modi Government is getting ready on October 30 to ensure that: ….about 50 lakh students from across the state will read books together for one hour, between 9 am and 10 am. The books to be read at the [...]

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Fan tastic?

Sure, you like books by certain authors and would give your right hand to collect their works, right from their first book. But, as a fan, could you do this? Nick Newcomen went a little further than most, spending a month driving more than 12,000 miles to inscribe his message – “Read Ayn Rand” – on [...]

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Sometimes, just sometimes, we get really cut up with ourselves for missing out on book launches.  Fatima Bhutto’s book ‘Songs of Blood and Sword’ in Bangalore is one such, for instance.  At this point, even attempting to justify our absence,  sounds like an excuse. Photograph: Manish G Source: www.mybangalore.com You can read all about the event [...]

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