 INSECTS ARE JUST LIKE YOU AND ME EXCEPT SOME OF THEM HAVE WINGS
Published on August 18, 2008 by indiainterats teamViewed 1499 times
Author Kuzhali Manickavel engages audience in an interesting session at Odyssey, Adyar
Odyssey, India’s premier leisure store chain, along with Blaft Publications launched a short fiction ‘Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings’ and also held a book reading session by author
Kuzhali Manickavel, at the Odyssey store in Adyar today.
An ‘Insect Carnival’ was also organized after the launch of Kuzhali's book. Blaft Publications in a unique display showcased boxes of insects that have been loaned from the Zoological Survey of India. Also, a couple of posters about entomology were on display at the venue. In a live demonstration that followed, a microscope was used to look at the two species of mites that live on everybody's forehead.
About Kuzhali Manickavel
Kuzhali Manickavel was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, lived in various places around Canada, and moved to Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India when she was thirteen years old. Her fiction has appeared in literary journals published in Nigeria, Italy, Canada, the USA, India, and cyberspace. Contrary to popular belief, she is not very much fond of insects.
About Blaft
Blaft is a new independent publishing house based in Chennai, India. Since its launch in May 2008 Blaft has released two books of translations from Tamil, and The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction and Zero Degree by Charu Nivedita, as well as a collection of drawings by Chennai-based artist Natesh. Kuzhali Manickavel's Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings is Blaft's fourth release.
About Odyssey
Odyssey is a premier leisure stores chain, owned by Odyssey India Limited, stocking Books, Music, Cards, Stationery, Gifts, Toys, Multimedia, and Magazines having 31 stores in 13 cities with Chennai (8), Hyderabad (4), Bangalore (9), one each in Kolkata, Coimbatore, Nagpur, Pune, Kozhikode, Noida, Navi Mumbai, Salem, Trichy, and Varanasi. Odyssey is expanding into newer markets besides expanding in existing markets.
Odyssey India Limited is a 100% subsidiary of Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited, publishers of newspapers, Deccan Chronicle, Financial Chronicle & Asian Age.
Odyssey India Limited recently diversified by entering the hi-fashion eyewear segment with the launch of the first store under the brand name “The Eyewear Store” in Hyderabad.
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