{"id":127,"date":"2014-06-27T16:37:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T11:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/?p=127"},"modified":"2017-04-04T17:29:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T11:59:38","slug":"of-bullets-books-and-bradbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Of Bullets, Books and Bradbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/images\/451.jpg\" width=300 alt= Fahrenheit 451><\/p>\n<p>&#039;<b>Fahrenheit 451<\/b>&#039; is a 1953 dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury describing a future society that &#039;<i>does not read books, enjoy nature, spend time alone, think independently or have meaningful conversations<\/i>&#039;.<\/p>\n<p>Does that sound familiar? <\/p>\n<p>In an earlier <a target=\"_blank\" href=http:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/?p=339>post<\/a> I observed, nay lamented, our ebbing love of books and the fact that very few people seemed to be interested in a rare book fair in Srinagar. <\/p>\n<p>That disappointment was nothing compared to today&#039;s shocker:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/images\/kilo.jpg\" width=400 alt= Sign><\/p>\n<p>I kid you not. I bought one kilogram of classics for Khurram who seems to have inherited my addiction to the printed word.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/images\/classics.jpg\" width=400 alt= Classics><\/p>\n<p>Some years ago <b>India Today<\/b> frontpaged an <a target=\"_blank\" href=http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/story\/pakistan-in-darra-adam-khel-lethal-weapons-sell-openly-alongside-narcotics\/1\/323703.html>article<\/a> about the semi-legendary weapons market of <b>Darra Adam Khel<\/b> in NWFP Pakistan where bullets were sold by weight in pickle jars. <\/p>\n<p>Bullets back then and books by the kilogram today &#8211; I wonder what Ray Bradbury would make of it?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/images\/sign.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>P.S: The book stall is part of an ongoing trade fair at the <b>Sangarmaal<\/b> complex. Just be sure to invite a friend who&#039;s into weightlifting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#039;Fahrenheit 451&#039; is a 1953 dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury describing a future society that &#039;does not read books, enjoy nature, spend time alone, think independently or have meaningful conversations&#039;. Does that sound familiar? In an earlier post I observed, nay lamented, our ebbing love of books and the fact that very few people seemed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}