Chiki Sarkar: How India's smartphone revolution is creating a new generation of readers and writers
Čiki Sarkar (Chiki Sarkar): Kako revolucija pametnih telefona u Indiji stvara novu generaciju čitalaca i pisaca
Chiki Sarkar is the founder of Juggernaut, a platform to find and read high quality, affordable books and to submit your writing. Full bio
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an airport, a restaurant,
na aerodromu, u restoranu,
or maybe in your pockets.
ili možda u džepovima.
of my office block.
of 20-something professionals
profesionalaca u dvadesetim godinama
had a book in their hands.
very, very frustrated.
in love with was Mr. Darcy.
bio je gospodin Darsi.
on a summer break from college.
u 21. godini na letnjem raspustu.
in a little flat I bought in my mid-20s,
u malom stanu kupljenom u mojim 20-im,
reading "The Da Vinci Code."
a terrible confession:
legnem u krevet uz „Rat i mir“.
I get into bed with "War and Peace."
people I saw around me:
da mi treba mesečna zaliha pelena.
that I needed a monthly dose of diapers.
kao većina urbanih Indijaca,
like most urban Indians,
ubijala sam vreme na Vatsapu,
video-chatting my twin.
that was happening in India.
koja se događala u Indiji.
users of smartphones in the world.
po korišćenju pametnih telefona.
slashed so radically
i čak deo ruralne Indije
and even a part of rural India
with a data connection in their hands.
sa internetom u svojim rukama.
znaćete da je „pola“
like, all of America or something.
and growing and growing.
is empowering Indians
koje sam viđala
that I was seeing around me
my world of books.
da čitaju iz zabave.
to want to read for fun.
listu bestselera u Indiji,
the best-seller lists in India,
in the best-seller list
as the "New York Times" number one seller,
na listi Njujork tajmsa.
was creating readers and writers
drugačije vrste.
najrazličitije stvari:
and reading all kinds of things:
I wondered to myself,
pitala sam se:
and these readers,
svoju udobnu kancelariju
najbolje indijske izdavačke kuće,
of India's top publishing company,
in a cheap bohemian district of Delhi,
Delhija sa malim timom.
a new kind of publishing house.
novu vrstu izdavačke kuće.
needs a new kind of reader
„Šta bi novi čitalac želeo?
"What would this new reader want?
od svojih onlajn usluga,
from their online services,
od života danas?“
to want from life today?"
were always on the go.
uvek u pokretu.
u njihov način života i raspored.
their lifestyle and schedules.
a 200-page book?
da čitaju knjigu od 200 strana?
a little bit more digestible?
to their online reading.
books under a dollar.
knjige za manje od dolara.
and it was born.
of stories designed for the smartphone,
dizajniranih za pametne telefone,
to upload their own stories,
da okače sopstvene priče,
along with the very writers
zajedno uz baš one pisce
other people's digital platforms.
na digitalne platforme drugih ljudi.
i imali ste dug dan na poslu,
you've had a long day at work,
in your ride-hailing app,
and you lie back on your seat,
waiting for you, timed to your journey.
specijalno za putovanje.
kao što je Laknau, blizu Delhija.
like Lucknow, which lies near Delhi.
know about your sexuality.
na hindiju, za manje od dolara,
written in Hindi, priced under a dollar,
around them in real time?
u realnom vremenu?
vrlo poznatih političara
of very famous politicians
dekriminalizovao homoseksualnost,
decriminalized homosexuality,
na našoj početnoj strani.
on our home page.
velika spisateljica Mahasveta Devi umrla,
the great writer Mahasweta Devi died,
čim je vest osvanula.
as soon as news hit.
sa svakim trenutkom života naših čitalaca.
to every moment of a reader's life.
under the age of 30.
modernih knjižara.
there isn't a modern bookshop.
during the long commute back home.
tokom dugog puta do kuće.
who loves our nonfiction
koji voli našu nefikciju
i koja je jako jeftina.
and that's priced very low.
zaluđen tehnikom
city of Bangalore.
dolini, gradu Bangalor.
aplikacija vas obaveštava
an in-app notification
napisala seksi kratku priču
has written a sexy short story
za odrasle Sani Leon.
called Sunny Leone.
person, as it happens.
kolekciju kratkih seksi priča
a collection of sexy short stories
nedelju dana svako veče.
da Sani Leon piše za nas.
that we'd asked Sunny Leone to write.
pojam knjige i ponašanje čitaoca,
what a book is and how a reader behaves,
from teenagers to housewives.
eseji, kratke priče...
an essay, a single short story ...
na aplikaciju da opet piše.
to the app to write again.
wife, two kids, a good job.
ima ženu, dvoje dece i dobar posao.
knjigu koju voli,
a book that he loved,
if he could write, too.
he had stories in his mind.
mu nisu dozvoljavali.
and he couldn't really manage it.
Džagernaut za pisce.
the Juggernaut writer's platform.
was that he felt this was a place
je što je osećao da tamo
head and shoulders, equally,
kojima se najviše divio.
that he most admired.
a minute here, an hour there,
a little bit of time on his hands.
malo slobodnog vremena.
extraordinary story for us.
about a family of assassins
lanes of Old Delhi.
starog Delhija.
tako sveža i originalna.
he'd not only scored a film deal
ne samo ponudu za film,
to write another story.
na našoj aplikaciji.
stories on our app.
and we have a long way to go.
pred kojom je dug put.
by the end of this year,
do kraja ove godine,
od kojih su mnoge jeftinije od dolara.
many priced at under a dollar.
za koje nikada nisu ni čuli.
they've never, ever heard of before.
that comes from our writer's platform.
postati svakodnevica,
as checking your email,
pametnih telefona od šest inča,
the six-inch world of the smartphone,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Chiki Sarkar - PublisherChiki Sarkar is the founder of Juggernaut, a platform to find and read high quality, affordable books and to submit your writing.
Why you should listen
Chiki Sarkar is the publisher and founder of Juggernaut Books, a new age publishing house based out of India that has a traditional print list and its own app and amateur writing platform. Before setting up Juggernaut, she was the publisher of Penguin Random House India and the founding editor in chief of Random House India. Sarkar lives in New Delhi, India.
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