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When women hold the fort
Mausam hai aashikana…” the melodious voice of Lata filled the Pramadakshari – JV Publications stall at the ongoing Hyderabad Book Fair 2015 being held at NTR Stadium. It was indeed a beautiful experience to watch the women writers, around 40 of them
Works by around 40 popular, senior and new-age women writers have been stocked at the ongoing Hyderabad Book Fair, and are currently the cynosure
“Mausam hai aashikana…” the melodious voice of Lata filled the Pramadakshari – JV Publications stall at the ongoing Hyderabad Book Fair 2015 being held at NTR Stadium. It was indeed a beautiful experience to watch the women writers, around 40 of them, dedicatedly taking turns to sit at the stall that stocks their own books and those written by other women writers; selling them passionately.
Even as the senior writer Kameswari laments, and validly so, on how the current situation not just compels them to publish their own books, but sell them too, it is indeed a cynosure of all eyes to see the gamut of women’s voices assemble at one place.
‘Pramadakshari’ is an internet initiative to bring together Telugu women writers on a platform that started 2 years ago. Within 6 months of its inception, the group decided to have their own stall at the Book Fair. Now, for the second time in a row, Pramadakshari, the brainchild of Jyothi Valaboju who also publishes books under JV Publications, has a stall that is full of books on women, old and new, latest and all-time bestsellers, shares Jyothi Valaboju, whose book ‘Telangana Vantalu’ is extremely popular for both its vegetarian and non-vegetarian editions. She also publishes other books under the umbrella of JV Publications, the latest being ‘Chiguraku Reparepalu’ by award-winning writer Mannem Sarada, who has written the novel after 10 years of silence.
The other books on display include Pothuri Vijaya Lakshmi’s ‘Sanmanam’, C Uma Devi’s ‘Sagara Keratam’, GS Lakshmi’s ‘Athanu Aame Kalam’, Sammeta Umadevi’s ‘Amma Kathalu’, Nanduri Sundarinagamani’s ‘Amulyam’, Athaluri Vijayalakshmi’s ‘Oppandam’ and her new release, ‘Archana’, Alluri Gowri Lakshmi’s compilation of poetry and columns, Late Turaga Janaki Rani’s plays and playlets ‘Nee Jeevitham Naaku Kaavali’, Ganti Bhanumathi’s ‘Aa Iddaru’ among several others by many popular, senior and new-age women writers.
What is more heartening is the positive response that the stall is eliciting. The women writers are holding fort at the stalls 268, 269 and 270 at the Hyderabad Book Fair that will go on till December 27.
