‘Blossom Showers’ released in Mangalore

The Hindu

Mangalore, 18 July 2011: Books should be launched in educational institutions and universities to attract youth to reading, president-elect of the Indian chapter of the International Reading Association H. C. Parikh said here on Sunday.

 

Alan Nazareth, former diplomat, launching navel Blossom Showers at Rellance TimeOut in Mangalore on Sunday. Giselle Mehatha, and A.C.Parekh are also seen

 

Speaking to presspersons after the launch of Giselle Mehta’s book Blossom Showers, a novel, at a mall, Mr. Parikh said that the proper place for a book launch was educational institutions, where such an event would encourage people to read. He felt that the youth preferred electronic media to reading. If youth considered the cost of books to be high, they did not appear to spend the same amount of money on other things. However, he said that if the prices of paperback editions of books were kept low, more people would be encouraged to buy books.

 

Earlier, he said the book captured the socio-cultural values of a bygone era, and had propagated the cause of conserving the environment.

 

Ms. Mehta said she had tried to put on paper what she expected from a book as a reader. She said the publication of the book was the culmination of a dream that began in childhood. She said the book was in three parts and each spanned a different period in time. It was particularly challenging to give each of the characters a “voice of their own” in keeping with the times they lived in, she said.

 

The former diplomat Alan Nazareth said that parts of the book were like poetry.