On 2/21/06, Radhika, Y. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Biased, prejudiced or not,
> AMC was an amazing source of myth and some history as well
I too was a voracious reader of AMC comics when I was young. My
brother and I used to pester our parents to buy us each one comic for
every trip we made to the train station. They were quite a lot of fun
to read and, I guess, in some way inculcate an interest in history and
culture. We had in our collection something like 40-50 comic books
that we had bound into volumes and indexed with our home grown system
(with an Ex Libris rubber stamp). My mom, like all moms do appently,
gave them away to some unknown raddiwala ("guy that goes around buying
old paper by the kilo") when I went to college.
My nieces are 2 and 4 and it is for them that my brother, my parents
and I have been buying up AMCs these days. I was re-reading most of
them quite recently.
> Or
> even just docents/tour guides--Lal Bagh is a first rate example of how
> history suffers. Couldn't the city hire tour guides, give them a solid
> drumming in the the history and ecology of the place? People are not
> as uninterested as one would think. An architecture student we spoke
> to in Bangalore said she knew more about Hyde Park than Lalbagh and
> had never bothered to even ask!!!!
You may be interested in http://community.livejournal.com/bangalore/282264.html
Thaths
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