Time, sometimes forgets to inspire us, the readers;
especially when you are very selective in choosing books as a night cap. That
is how most of us have missed the best of Soviet, Russian Literature in Telugu
now a days. Especially our children have lost the wonder of those soviet books
with art of illustrations, paintings etc. In fact these books gave us the taste
of those times when we used to hear the horn of the van that brought these
beautiful books to our little streets in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
Now Anil is the pointer, the
man with full of madness to collect age old books that are hidden in those
remote book stalls, pavements, and with good old friends. His aim is to bring
those good books of literature and art once again to all of us. For this Anil
went far beyond his job work relaxation and left nothing unturned in finding
these rarest of rare books published by ‘Raduga’ , ’Progress’ etc. of Soviet
Russia. You can still find him anywhere in twin cities looking for a forgotten
book. Scanning, Xeroxing, finding those book, fallen pages of dumped books
isn’t an easy job. His user friendly way did the miracle of matching the
internet to get the best of his efforts to our nearest reach.
Anil has great love for children
literature. He loves art, especially illustrations in color. However he doesn’t
paint or write, but the passion made him to work a lot in selecting those
attractive books and see that we get them easily with a click on the net. Till
now he has collected around seven hundred soviet books. He also created a Blog
dedicated to Soviet Telugu books printed in USSR. His Blog link : http://sovietbooksintelugu.blogspot.in . He is almost an artist with an eye
that looks for great old paintings & illustration of those soviet
publications. His eyes, i believe are store houses of great collection of
Gorkey, Dostoevsky, Pushkin etc. His madness made it possible to take us back
to those pages of wonder and great reading.
We should protect the tribe like
Anil & his street mission; so let us help him to get helped
regarding great Classics that we can never ever forget. His mail id : fualoflife@gmail.com
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Sivaji
(Artist)