Moving On -- Now available at Walden

Starting today, Moving On is available at Walden {stores at Road No. 2, Banjara Hills and Greenlands Road (adjacent to Pulla Reddy Building), Begumpet / Somajiguda}.

Incidentally, Walden had given me a lot of food for thought (as an "account" being pitched for) way back in 1998, while I was with an ad agency a stone's throw away at Topaz Building.

Meaning, I had done the research on what Walden's advertising should be about and then stayed up some nights to write the copy :-)

It's another story (of course) that we never made a proper pitch........

Nice to see that Walden's still doing good business (the store had around 20 customers at around 11.00 today morning) even these days when there are bigger and swankier bookstores around.

Nicer to see that they are as choc-a-bloc full of books today as they were then.

Nicest is that they are stocking Moving On :-)

Invite - Screening of “Lost and Found: Six Glances at a Generation”

Osmania University Centre for International Programmes &
Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad cordially invite you to a screening of

“Lost and Found: Six Glances at a Generation”
(99 mins., 2005)


Time: 3 pm
Day & Date: Wednesday, 28th April, 2010
Venue: AV Room, OUCIP

About the film

Nurtured in war and turmoil, raised in fragile
democracies, the first post-Communist generation of young men and women from Central and Eastern Europe is now poised to play a leading role in the world. In Lost and Found, six young filmmakers from this region present their personal views on the subject of “generation” and the many changes that sometimes separate them radically from the generation of their parents….In Lost and Found, a generation takes a look at itself – and confidently asserts its position in a new Europe.

Happy Birthday, John Muir!

Today's John Muir's birthday.

Among other notables who have written about the natural world, the outdoors and the wilds, John Muir has been one of my biggest inspirations -- ever since I read about him in an old issue of the National Geographic. I had set out to do a long and detailed post on him and how he has inspired me, but while I have been busy with another birthday John's is almost getting over :-)

So, watch this space for that detailed post!

Happy birthday, John Muir.

Some of his quotes are here (many are not not exactly perfect).

Some of his writings are here.

A related post by another blogger is here.

Don't know who he is? There's google!

Incidentally according to some sources, Earth Day's date (April 22nd, that is tomorrow) was chosen under the misconception that it is John Muir's birthday.

Another story from strife-torn Chattisgarh

"I can't go back to my village, I have enemies on both sides -- the villagers on one side and the Naxals on the other (laughs). But still the present is a little better than the past. Now I want to do some other work. I don't want to work in the police because I don't want to make enemies any more."

The full story is here

Invite - Empire of the Moghul : Brothers at War

Hachette and Akshara invite you to the book launch of Alex Rutherford's (Diana and Michael Preston) second book in the Empire of the Moghul series, Brothers at War.

Time and Date : 6:30 PM, Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
Location : Saptaparni, Road No. 8, Banjara Hills

Sridala Swami, a poet from Hyderabad will be in conversation with the authors (Diana and Michael Preston, Alex Rutherford is their pseudonym).