A city like Bengaluru should have had very good public libraries and in their absence, people like Krishna are filling the gap to some extent,” he said. “I am not partial between Blossom Book House and Bookworm and buy books from both. Krishna Gowda.īengaluru continued its enduring affair with books and book shops with an event that gave readers an opportunity to meet authors to discuss their books and stories, and about the world of book shops.Ĭity-based historian Ramachandra Guha, a loyal customer of Bookworm, said he loved browsing and buying books at the store. While the book trade has been financially rewarding, it is probably the only trade that is also intellectually rewarding,” said Mr. “If I have grown, it is only thanks to the bibliophile community of Bengaluru and their support. Now Bookworm runs out of a sprawling two-floor shop on Church Street. At one point, he owned three shops, including one dedicated to children’s books. Road in January 2001 and moved into a shop in 2004. He branched out on his own, starting Bookworm, initially on the pavement of M.G. Mayee Gowda, even as he pursued undergraduate studies in an evening college. Ferose has made a documentary titled ‘The Bookman of Bengaluru’, which will be screened at Bangalore International Centre on Sunday evening.įrom 1997-2001, he worked with Mr. To mark the 25th anniversary of his stepping into this business, one of his loyal customers V.R. That’s how I ended up selling books in 1997 and have never looked back since then,” he said. But Mayee Gowda of Blossom Book House, also from my village, Rangasamudra, in Mysuru, had already come to Bengaluru and was selling books on the pavement of M.G. “My uncle had an onion shop in Mysuru and asked me to work at the shop during the day and join an evening college. Recounting how he came to sell books 25 years ago, Krishna Gowda said after completing his pre-university, he had to seek a job due to financial constraints at home. And she will discover the new secret pact negotiated by the nefarious Russian president and his newly elected American counterpart-maverick and dealmaker-and the evil it portends.It was quite by chance that ‘Bookworm’ Krishna, one of the go-to persons for all bibliophiles in the city, ended up selling books in 1997 rather than onions. She will understand precisely why that leather Bible, scooped up by the Nazis and deposited on the desk of Adolf Hitler days before he planned to attack Britain, played such a pivotal role in turning his guns to the East. The woman who will put these two disparate events together-and understand the looming tragedy she must hurry to prevent-is Russian historian and former Soviet chess champion Larissa Mendelovg Klimt, “Lara the Bookworm,” to her friends.In the course of this riveting thriller, Lara will learn the significance of six musty Dictaphone cylinders recorded after D-Day by Noel Coward-actor, playwright and, secretly, a British agent reporting directly to Winston Churchill. London, 2017: A construction worker makes a grisly discovery-a skeletal arm-bone with a rusty handcuff attached to the wrist. That night, he adds an old leather Bible to the monastery’s library and then escapes. Belgium, 1940: Posing as a friar, a British operative talks his way into the monastery at Villers-devant-Orval just before the Nazis plan to sweep through the area and whisk everything of value back to Berlin.
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