http://www.roopinder.com/blog/books-beyond Articles, Book reviews, comments and photos by Roopinder Singh Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:53:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.roopinder.com/blog/books-beyond/comment-page-1#comment-8561 Moitreyee Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:59:08 +0000 http://www.roopinder.com/blog/?p=316#comment-8561 Can't agree more with Mr. Roopinder Singh's observation about Chandigarh & books! My first visit the city, I was so pleasently surprised to meet at least 8 very passionate book lovers in the 9 days I spent here! They were academics, IAS officers & journalists young & old. Strengthened my belief that the present generation does have the patience to read! And visitors to the store on day 1 included young couples with requests of specific books to gift their beloved, senior citizens browsing for their favourite read to happily spend their hard earned leisure. What a pleasure it was to see a host of young IT professionals & bankers from across the road and the swanky office next door troop in during lunch hour to pick up handful of books. Fiction and evergreen classics appeared to be the popular choice. And the icing on the cake is this piece of conversation over telephone I overheard (I assure you I wasn't eves-dropping - the conversationist in his excitement was quite oblivious of the decibel level of his voice!! "Excuse me just today please. I am in this book store, you must visit. And there are so many books - so difficult to choose. It smells so good." Can’t agree more with Mr. Roopinder Singh’s observation about Chandigarh & books! My first visit the city, I was so pleasently surprised to meet at least 8 very passionate book lovers in the 9 days I spent here! They were academics, IAS officers & journalists young & old. Strengthened my belief that the present generation does have the patience to read!
And visitors to the store on day 1 included young couples with requests of specific books to gift their beloved, senior citizens browsing for their favourite read to happily spend their hard earned leisure. What a pleasure it was to see a host of young IT professionals & bankers from across the road and the swanky office next door troop in during lunch hour to pick up handful of books. Fiction and evergreen classics appeared to be the popular choice.
And the icing on the cake is this piece of conversation over telephone I overheard (I assure you I wasn’t eves-dropping - the conversationist in his excitement was quite oblivious of the decibel level of his voice!!
“Excuse me just today please. I am in this book store, you must visit. And there are so many books - so difficult to choose. It smells so good.”

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