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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Happenings’ Category
Spreading wings, far and wide
Posted in Events, Happenings, Milestones on May 29, 2011 |
Patience & Fortitude
Posted in Happenings, Miscellanous on May 24, 2011 |
A photo-documentary on the NewYork Public Library in its 100th year. Check it out here.
Disruptive times, these
Posted in Happenings on May 23, 2011 |
Kate Sidley in her blog @Books Live writes: My point, in case you were beginning to wonder, is that we are living through an extraordinary time in the world of books and publishing. Sort of mirrors David’s line that we carried in this recent post of ours. What says you?
New Judges, more Eligible Countries Announced
Posted in Happenings on May 20, 2011 |
Judges for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize were announced Friday with a BBC Special Correspondent, the author of Slumdog Millionaire and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, all set to judge the best of Asian fiction from 2011. Included in this list is Vikas Swarup. Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat and writer presently serving as [...]
Simon & Schuster in India
Posted in Happenings, Publishing on May 19, 2011 |
As part of its strategic focus on bringing the works of its authors to the widest possible global audience, Simon & Schuster, Inc. announced the establishment of Simon & Schuster India (S&SI), a New Delhi-based sales, marketing and publishing company. The announcement was made by Carolyn Reidy, President and CEO of Simon & Schuster, Inc., [...]
Man Booker International 2011 Prize Winner announced
Posted in Books, Happenings on May 18, 2011 |
The Man Booker website has just announced: Philip Roth is today announced as the winner of the fourth Man Booker International Prize at a press conference at the Sydney Opera House. Roth was chosen from a list of 13 eminent contenders. The Man Booker International Prize, worth £60,000, is awarded for an achievement in fiction on [...]
Horror of Horrors
Posted in Happenings, Humour, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on May 11, 2011 |
A news report in the Deccan today titled ‘Reading books makes one vampires or wizards’ states: A new study has claimed that children more or less ”become” vampires or wizards just by reading books about them. Apparently Psychologists at the University of Buffalo have found that this is because one not only feels like the [...]
Library in waiting
Posted in Happenings, Humour on April 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A quote by the outgoing Infosys CFO Mohandas Pai, in today’s TimesCrest supplement to the TOI: I’m a very private person who likes nothing better than to curl up in a corner and read all the books in the world. As a young boy, I used to go to the public library and read as [...]
The King of Good Tunes
Posted in Books, Events, Happenings, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on April 19, 2011 |
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 [...]
Sign of the Times
Posted in Happenings, Kalyan Nagar, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on April 16, 2011 |
JustBooks is hitting big time, slowly & surely, and what better way to proclaim this than through our hoardings? Here’s one that we’ve just put up on the Outer Ring Road, near the Horamavu Junction. Its a monster of a hoarding, all of 100 * 25 feet! Its been a coup for our Marketing Team, [...]
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