Dear all: At the workshop on 'creative industries' held in Panjim on the weekend, one of the GBC-related ideas that came up was this: how about a once-a-month market for second hand books being launched?
The Director of Arts and Culture Prasad Loliyekar and Central Library Curator Carlos Fernandes were welcoming of the idea. One possibility is holding the same at the foyer of the Central Library, allowing any individual to spread a small number of books (say, what can be fitted on one bedsheet) and either sell or exchange the same. Do you think it could work? If so, any suggestions you'd have to make? Kindly share your ideas, suggestions and cautionary notes.... Of course, we are still in the dreaming stage here, but who knows, if we keep repeating it often enough, it could well become a self-fulfilling prophecy... :-) And a lovely bookish one at that. After all, who among us doesn't have surplus books they'd want to dispose off (even if money is not the main motivation here)? And, who would not like to pick up some more tantalising books at a very reasonable price? Who knows, this might help to build the badly-needed book ecosystem in Goa too. So, do you think Goa could have its own Nai Sarak-Ber Sarai-Daryaganj (Delhi), Avenue Road (Bangalore), College Street (Kolkata), Fort (Mumbai), Sector 15 (Chandigarh), Sunday Book Market at Abids (Hyderabad), all rolled into one, even if on a smaller scale to start with? FN -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ Frederick Noronha | http://about.me/noronhafrederick | http://goa1556.in _/ P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter @fn Facebook: fredericknoronha _/ Goa,1556 CC shared audio content https://archive.org/details/goa1556 _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
