After much bungling with the National Book Trust bureaucracy, we finally found our stall (in an entirely different place than was printed in our registration packet). But something wasn't quite right...
Sirish soon came up with a way to cover up the abomination.
Handmade screen-prints to make the stand less ugly...
Hazards of the publishing trade: finding the electrical box for the entire convention center in the middle of your stand.
Very proud to say that I stole this ladder from Om Book Publishers. And when they tried to take it back, I pretended to only speak French.
Focus face.
This was taken the day before the fair started. Sketchy.
We were actually the only people who set up their own stands. Everyone else (in all 8 halls) actually hired various people who mill about the convention center to build them elaborate displays and hang plasma tvs. People stared at us: a white woman and a well-dressed Indian man, working side-by-side without aid.
My favourite picture.
These two little ones are part of the vast (and impoverished) community that live entirely off the rotating trade fairs that come through Delhi's Pragati Maidan Convention Center.
Architecture is not modern India's strong suit.
Where I ate lunch every day...Veg Noodles or bust!
Day one, looking good!
Sirish is always on the phone.
Our books really do sell themselves (bias?).
Author Anushka Ravishankar signing books.
So our beloved yet sketchy Asian Guest House was in a dilapidated old building in Connaught Place. It had several high-end neighbors, including a chartered architect's office.
Elevator going up.
My room. No heat. 0C Delhi winter evenings. I still refused to move.
My bathroom wall fell into my bathroom one night. This is what it looked like when it was "fixed."
The chartered architect's office. Sirish actually couldn't open up one of the doors in his room because it led into either the architect's office or the guest house's main office. We never did learn...
Downtown Delhi at dawn.
Old Delhi just after dawn.
The Red Fort in the distance.
Jain temple.
The entrance to Old Delhi's Red Fort.
Moghul architecture really is stunning.
