Today, we pay tribute to Marjane Satrapi, the brilliant creator of Persepolis—a graphic memoir that has touched readers across generations and borders.
Through her powerful storytelling, honesty, and unforgettable artwork, Satrapi gave the world a deeply personal account of growing up during the Iranian Revolution, while exploring themes of identity, freedom, family, and resilience that continue to resonate today.
At Blossom Book House, Persepolis has been one of the most beloved graphic novels on our shelves. Over the years, we have proudly sold around 150,000 copies, introducing countless readers to this extraordinary work.
Thank you, Marjane Satrapi, for creating a book that has inspired, challenged, and moved so many people. Your voice and your stories will continue to find new readers for years to come.
A heartfelt tribute from all of us at Blossom Book House. 📚🖤
#MarjaneSatrapi #Persepolis #GraphicNovel #BookTribute #BlossomBookHouse #ReadingCommunity #BooksThatMatter
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Cost of living in towns where there is enough employment has gone through the roof. 2000 rs as a daily expense in my city Bengaluru is not affordable to masses. Think of Auto Drivers, Gig workers, Security guards, Street vendors etc who dont make that much of money. The Inflation numbers shared by the Government for their academic purposes is way too lower than the Average Inflation people face in their day to day life.
I am not even sure if there is a solution to this problem. Inflation is a Global issue and its more intense in India given our lower wage levels.
Bloomberg mistook a fall in RBI’s gold value as a gold sale.
RBI says physical gold stock was unchanged.
Value fall ≠ Sale.
Explained here: https://t.co/L2tSLwTdYv
#RBI#GoldReserves#ForexReserves#GoldPrice
My piece in the Economic Times on a far-reaching 'right to be forgotten' judgment by the Delhi High Court. The piece was edited for length. Weblink here: https://t.co/UKdKykhppG
"With more than 400 hours of distilled academic content, @Bharatvidya_in is the most comprehensive content library on India's heritage and history. We have a similarly comprehensive free archive on our YouTube channel, as well."I
"A compute tax is about as bad as a tax can be, by the standard benchmarks used in public finance. If you care about things like increasing output, total surplus, minimizing deadweight loss, those types of things, stay away from this." 👉
Thanks to @karthiks, i learnt of the existence of a Kannada translation of Satrapi's Persepolis today
And I'm sure you'll all find her works in your languages. She was one of a kind, please do read her, I'm sure that's the best way to mourn her passing
Wild that LIC:
Rejected your claim for a minor document issue ✅
But approved 10% stake into Rajesh Exports with zero issues ✅
The process works perfectly. Just not for you. 🙂
How can you explain which tools someone used to exploit client side vulnerabilities anyway? Unless you managed to get access to the devices of people who are exploiting these? You expect media to ask these basic questions instead of making it look like some sophisticated hacking
No one understood a composer's vision faster, and no one poured more focus into a song than SPB. Celebrating the life, friendship, and the unmatched achievement of 50,000 songs. Happy Birthday, SPB.
An engineer in Mumbai started building an ebook manager in 2006. Twenty years later, almost 3 million people across 236 countries open it every two months.
His name is Kovid Goyal. The software is called Calibre. He still maintains it as principal developer. The last release shipped a week ago.
It is free. It is GPL-3.0 open source. It runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Here is what it does in plain words.
You drag an ebook into it. It reads almost every format on Earth. EPUB. MOBI. AZW. AZW3. KFX. PDF. Comics in CBR and CBZ. Word documents. Text files.
You can convert any of those into any other format with two clicks. So the book you bought on Kindle can be read on a Kobo. The PDF your professor sent can be read as an EPUB on your phone. The comic in CBR can be turned into an EPUB.
You can edit the metadata, fix the cover, add tags, organize a library of ten thousand books.
You can send the book to your Kindle, your Kobo, your Tolino, your phone, your tablet straight from the app.
You can run a small content server on your own laptop and read your books on any browser in your house.
24,978 stars on GitHub. 2.9 million active installs in the last 60 days. United States is the biggest user base at 14.8 percent, India is in the top 20, every country on the map has it running somewhere.
This is what your personal library was supposed to look like. A folder of files you own. Not a device that locks you in.
(Link in the comments)