At the peak of Indo-Soviet friendship, the Indian market was full of cheap Russian — or rather Soviet — books. A lot of them were propaganda material but there were also many interesting science and a few science-fiction titles.
They were published by Mir Publishers, Mir Publishers did a good job and subsidised the education of an entire generation, published under a special programme "to make the best Soviet textbooks available for Indian students" these were really good, Seems the breakdown of the soviet union hit them hard, but they are alive still, I read somewhere thay survived by merging of different publications under the name MIR.
I remember, the narrow metteled road before ELLORAS turning left to a big compound(I have not been there for years), a shoping complex with all signs of socialistic era built by some entrepreneur without any frills, it was two storied and I think towards last was APTECH centre where Alok got enamoured with his course coordinator…. I forget the name!!! There was this hall at start of the building where a SARDARJI used to load over his treasure of Soviet published books, I was big time into espionage thrillers from USA of Ludlum and others and always had the feeling that this guy must be a KGB agent, that never came out actually but still it was fun to roam around , check glossy covered books much better in finish than Indian books and highly cost effective as well.
Alok and me bought ‘Learn russian’ audio books which seemed bargain at that time, I never ever opened it, it still lies somewhere in house at doon , but I did buy Fyodor dostovesky’s ‘IDIOT’. It became a craze later on to go through ‘Problems in General Physics, By I.E. Irodov’ while preparing for Engg exams.
The USSR is no more..Sardar ji never saw again..building must have improved with Shining India..yes its true that era is gone!!!.
They were published by Mir Publishers, Mir Publishers did a good job and subsidised the education of an entire generation, published under a special programme "to make the best Soviet textbooks available for Indian students" these were really good, Seems the breakdown of the soviet union hit them hard, but they are alive still, I read somewhere thay survived by merging of different publications under the name MIR.
I remember, the narrow metteled road before ELLORAS turning left to a big compound(I have not been there for years), a shoping complex with all signs of socialistic era built by some entrepreneur without any frills, it was two storied and I think towards last was APTECH centre where Alok got enamoured with his course coordinator…. I forget the name!!! There was this hall at start of the building where a SARDARJI used to load over his treasure of Soviet published books, I was big time into espionage thrillers from USA of Ludlum and others and always had the feeling that this guy must be a KGB agent, that never came out actually but still it was fun to roam around , check glossy covered books much better in finish than Indian books and highly cost effective as well.
Alok and me bought ‘Learn russian’ audio books which seemed bargain at that time, I never ever opened it, it still lies somewhere in house at doon , but I did buy Fyodor dostovesky’s ‘IDIOT’. It became a craze later on to go through ‘Problems in General Physics, By I.E. Irodov’ while preparing for Engg exams.
The USSR is no more..Sardar ji never saw again..building must have improved with Shining India..yes its true that era is gone!!!.
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Couple of books that I treasure from that era are 'Chilhood' by Gorky presented to me on standing 1st in VIIth class and then another one ,that jiji got from an exhibition at MKP,is captain gapodshank' - comic hindi version of a story of a sailor. One day in nostalgia, I did dig up a russian site that offered free scans of these books. I must have scanned the first few pages of the learn russian series just out of initial excitement.
it was totally different era...
waht did you learn in APTECH
It was C & Unix course. The institute was Uptron ACL. I doubt if it's still there.
Sardarji's shop was MK Universal Book House,Area is Anekant place,Shop was beside Viraat Uniforms.
MK stood for something like ..Mehzdurodnaya Kniga.may not be exactly correct but close.
mr.rawats grey matter is oozing out through his hairs giving hazy memories.:-).
Mr Sharma, good Morning!!
that is why i am keeping things on record so that further twenty years, we do not relocate the shop to Ghantaghar.
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