Bookstores

Rule no 1 for travelling to India. Don't bring books. I've been to several great bookstores and books are much cheaper here. Revathi and I went to a terrific bookstore called Blossom. Like a lot of stores, you go up a steep set of stairs, but then it's like the Bookworm on steroids. And if you have something you want, you just ask and they go find it for you. This store was a combination of new and used. I saw a Japanese anime graphic novel series on Buddha. I would have gotten it, but the series would have taken it's own suitcase!

Revathi was looking for A Prayer for Owen Meany, and they had not 1 but 3 copies. Two in mass market paperback and one hardcover. They had everything from new releases to antique books.

Here are a couple of things I got. The top shows some of these funky Hindu stories in comic book format that I got for the girls. They are hilarious! I also got a little cookbook, a book of hindu wisdom, buddhist teachings and a really funny little "Thus Spake The Christ" (INR 5= 11 cents). I picked up a couple of other interesting things too--all small, like matchbook-sized Bhagavad Gita and Vedic Stories books...

If and when I come again, I'm not bringing any books with me. I'll get them all here.