00:00How does reading go beyond just giving information and can actually transform a person?
00:06See, we already are overloaded with information.
00:09So the job of the book today is not so much about providing more information.
00:19The right book in today's context has to be the spot of confrontation,
00:27the spot of debate.
00:31It's a point where you must meet something that challenges and dissolves you,
00:38not reinforces your pre-existing biases.
00:43And that's why the traditional role of the book,
00:48providing soothing fiction or entertainment or gossip or anything of that kind,
00:56is becoming largely irrelevant today.
00:59And if it's not becoming irrelevant, it must become irrelevant.
01:03Today, the book must step into new shoes.
01:06And that's happening.
01:08I'm glad to see that the book as inquiry is gaining ground.
01:15We are trying to do that.
01:16The book store itself is a step in that direction.
01:21Thank you so much, sir.
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