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Jayant Meghani (1938-2020): Remembering the meticulous bookseller of Bhavnagar


Jayant Meghani (1938-2020): Remembering the meticulous bookseller of Bhavnagar
How a Gujarati bookstore in Bhavnagar achieved cult status thanks to its founder, who died on December 4, at the age of 82.
Jayant Meghani.
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Surendrasinh Gohil
In 1972, a young librarian named Jayant Meghani started a bookshop named Prasar in the city of Bhavnagar. Located on western coastline of the Gulf of Cambay near the historic port of Ghogha, it was once the capital of a large princely state with its own publishing tradition and printing infrastructure.
By the 1970s, Bhavnagar had been relegated to the sidelines of the Gujarati publishing world, which was centred around the north-south axis between Ahemdabad and Mumbai. As the very name – Prasar – suggested, Meghani was a man on a mission: a mission to spread and broaden a culture of reading in the Gujarati world. ....

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How the Bombay plague shut down a human book factory: The life and death of Narayan Hemchandra


How the Bombay plague shut down a human book factory: The life and death of Narayan Hemchandra
An extraordinary life of industrial strength writing, cut short by the killer disease.
Narayan Hemchandra in the 1880s (left) and in the late 1890s.
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Courtesy: Forbes Gujarati Sabha
When one stepped out of the Fort of Bombay, well-worn footpaths led to the Washerman’s Tank or Dhobi Talao located at the verge of the Esplanade, an open ground created by forcefully relocating entire neighbourhoods to get a clear line of fire. Created in 1770s, a “Native Town” located “without the Fort” came into being. ....

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