A la recherche du temps perdu.
[Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi]
The Delhi Walla regrets to inform that the 30th meeting of The Delhi Proustians, a club for Delhiwallas that discusses French novelist Marcel Proust, could not take place as scheduled. I reached the venue on time but it was already dark and there were no bulbs at the Gandhi-King Plaza in India International Centre.
This means that the winter has set in, the days are getting shorter and we can read under an evening sky only if there are lamps. The 30th meeting of The Delhi Proustians takes place on 22 October 2012. Venue: Basant Lok Market. Time: 7 pm.
This week I got a mail from a reader. It left me with mixed feelings.
Hello,
I refer to your website occasionally for the extremely interesting articles and photographs you post on my beloved Delhi’s various facets. I again visited it today and read about the Proustean book club you attend every week. I would like to know if you know of any other, more general book clubs in Delhi. I ask because I haven’t yet read Proust and don’t plan to in the near future either, but I do wish to attend a book club meeting if I can find one. Please do let me know if you can be of help to me on this. Thanks!
See you, Marcel.
Where Outside Fact & Fiction bookstore Time 7 pm Nearest Metro Station Hauz Khas
I think it’s okay for a reader to have the idea that a book club is not for reading. It was your work itself that led that fellow to come to this conclusion. The series of posts on reading MP on this website is more of telling than actually reading — because reading is like praying; it can be had in one’s comfortable privacy without a DSLR.