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 [...]
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Belgaum, here we come
Posted in Announcements, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on February 24, 2012 |
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 [...]
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 [...]
A paradigm shift to our service offering
Posted in Munnudi, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on January 16, 2012 |
******Hear ye, Hear ye ******** ( Drum Roll in the background ) Strata announces the launch of our next experiment – a pure play ‘Kannada Library’ chain with a different (namma ooru ishtyle!) Kannada brand name: Munnudi!!!!! Munnudi as in ‘preface’ or ‘prologue.’ At Munnudi, 90% of the collection will be in Kannada and 10% [...]
A busy week gone by, Part 1
Posted in Salt Lake City, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on January 15, 2012 |
Lately, we’ve been having branches opening up one after the other. Take the week just gone by. We’ve had our very first branch open up in Salt Lake City, Kolkata last Monday and today, we’ve had a satellite library to our hugely successful Indiranagar library open up in Kaggadasapura. Here are some pics from both [...]
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…….
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 Karkhana
Posted in Branches, Hyderabad, Karkhana, tagged justbooksbangalore, justbooksclc on December 6, 2011 |
Our 3rd branch in Hyderabad – after our ECIL & Kukatpally stores – opened up in New Vasavi Nagar, Secunderabad. Here are some pictures from the opening day extravaganza. More pictures to come up after the 17th, when we visit Hyderabad yet again for the opening of our 4th store in Kondapur. Book Lovers and [...]
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 [...]
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