Today suddenly I remembered about some books I had read like 14-15 years back, now I really sound like a very old lady. Back in high school I had not yet started reading english books.
I was stuck with reading the kannada books, mainly because I didnt have access to english books and also because I just didnt know what to read.
I was a serious reader of kannada books then, books like garuda rekhe, kagadada hoovu were one of the first novels I read, believe me they are HEAVY emotional books.
Once I was in my village for summer holidays, in my grandfather's room there was a "kanaja" Kanaja means the place where they used to store the grains. it was around 7 ft deep and 6 feet wide.
And it was filled with all kind of junk since it was not used anymore to store grains.
I jumped into it and started searching without knowing what I was looking for. That is where I found garuda rekhe and chandrakanta santati.
I managed to find 9 books of santati, it actually had 11 books. Reading chandrakanta santati at that time was such an exhilarating experience.
I did not find the first book, so initially I was apprenhsive to start with the books. But I decided to go ahead. luckily every book had a synopsis of the previous book.
The 2nd book was named as some rahasya, the name was enough to start me on the book. half way through the book I was as happy as I had found a treasure.
I used to imagine those mayajala described and how the aiyyars disguised themselves. It was a beautiful book. by the end of the book I was addicted to chandrakanta santati.
Many of the books were very very humourous. It took me around 3 months to finish the 9 books. Actually I had found only 7 books initially, you wudnt believe to find the other 2 I asked every one of my relatives on my mother side.
Finally 2 of my cousins had 1 book each. Tragedy was I didnt have the last book and till now I have not read the last book. The books I had were v v old. Now that I have suddenly remembered those I will read those books again.
I think one of my aunt took all the books, so I will have to go buy the books.
But the smell of books which is close to 80 yrs old is something else.
I was stuck with reading the kannada books, mainly because I didnt have access to english books and also because I just didnt know what to read.
I was a serious reader of kannada books then, books like garuda rekhe, kagadada hoovu were one of the first novels I read, believe me they are HEAVY emotional books.
Once I was in my village for summer holidays, in my grandfather's room there was a "kanaja" Kanaja means the place where they used to store the grains. it was around 7 ft deep and 6 feet wide.
And it was filled with all kind of junk since it was not used anymore to store grains.
I jumped into it and started searching without knowing what I was looking for. That is where I found garuda rekhe and chandrakanta santati.
I managed to find 9 books of santati, it actually had 11 books. Reading chandrakanta santati at that time was such an exhilarating experience.
I did not find the first book, so initially I was apprenhsive to start with the books. But I decided to go ahead. luckily every book had a synopsis of the previous book.
The 2nd book was named as some rahasya, the name was enough to start me on the book. half way through the book I was as happy as I had found a treasure.
I used to imagine those mayajala described and how the aiyyars disguised themselves. It was a beautiful book. by the end of the book I was addicted to chandrakanta santati.
Many of the books were very very humourous. It took me around 3 months to finish the 9 books. Actually I had found only 7 books initially, you wudnt believe to find the other 2 I asked every one of my relatives on my mother side.
Finally 2 of my cousins had 1 book each. Tragedy was I didnt have the last book and till now I have not read the last book. The books I had were v v old. Now that I have suddenly remembered those I will read those books again.
I think one of my aunt took all the books, so I will have to go buy the books.
But the smell of books which is close to 80 yrs old is something else.
