Chiki Sarkar: How India's smartphone revolution is creating a new generation of readers and writers
تشيكي ساركار: كيف تخلق ثورة الهاتف الذكي في الهند جيلًا جديدًا من القراء والكتّاب
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,
أو المطار أو المطعم
or maybe in your pockets.
of my office block.
of 20-something professionals
had a book in their hands.
very, very frustrated.
in love with was Mr. Darcy.
on a summer break from college.
في العطلة الصيفية من الجامعة
in a little flat I bought in my mid-20s,
اشتريتها في منتصف عشريناتي
reading "The Da Vinci Code."
a terrible confession:
I get into bed with "War and Peace."
أذهب إلى السرير مع "الحرب والسلم."
people I saw around me:
that I needed a monthly dose of diapers.
أحتاج إلى قدر من الفوط.
like most urban Indians,
مثل معظم الهنود في المناطق الحضرية
video-chatting my twin.
على الواتس أب مع توأمي.
that was happening in India.
التي كانت قائمة في الهند.
users of smartphones in the world.
الهواتف الذكية في العالم.
slashed so radically
and even a part of rural India
وحتى جزء من المناطق الريفية
with a data connection in their hands.
ببيانات اتصال
like, all of America or something.
أو شيئا كهذا
and growing and growing.
is empowering Indians
that I was seeing around me
التي أراها أمامي
my world of books.
to want to read for fun.
the best-seller lists in India,
في الهند
in the best-seller list
as the "New York Times" number one seller,
التي تعدها "النيويورك تايمز" الأكثر مبيعًا
was creating readers and writers
خلقت القراء والكتاب
and reading all kinds of things:
في كل المجالات
I wondered to myself,
and these readers,
على هؤلاء الكتاب والقراء
of India's top publishing company,
in a cheap bohemian district of Delhi,
بمقاطعة بوهيمية رخيصة في دلهي
a new kind of publishing house.
needs a new kind of reader
إلى نوع جديد من القراء
"What would this new reader want?
ما الذي يريده هذا القارئ الجديد؟
from their online services,
من مزودهم بخدمات الانترنت
عليها من الحياة الحالية؟
to want from life today?"
were always on the go.
their lifestyle and schedules.
نمط حياتهم وجداولهم
a 200-page book?
a little bit more digestible?
to their online reading.
على الانترنت.
books under a dollar.
كتب بأقل من دولار واحد.
and it was born.
of stories designed for the smartphone,
المصممة للهواتف الذكية
to upload their own stories,
بتحميل قصصهم الخاصة
along with the very writers
other people's digital platforms.
إلى منصات الآخرين الرقمية.
you've had a long day at work,
in your ride-hailing app,
تطبيقك للنقل حسب الطلب
and you lie back on your seat,
waiting for you, timed to your journey.
مؤقتة بحسب رحلتك.
like Lucknow, which lies near Delhi.
التي تقع بالقرب من دلهي.
know about your sexuality.
بميولك الجنسية.
written in Hindi, priced under a dollar,
بالهندية، وبسعر أقل من دولار واحد
around them in real time?
of very famous politicians
المشهورين
decriminalized homosexuality,
المثلية الجنسية
on our home page.
على صفحتنا الرئيسية.
the great writer Mahasweta Devi died,
الكاتبة العظيمة ماهاسافيتا ديفي
as soon as news hit.
قصة قصيرة من تأليفها.
to every moment of a reader's life.
under the age of 30.
there isn't a modern bookshop.
مكتبة حديثة.
during the long commute back home.
الطويلة إلى المنزل.
who loves our nonfiction
الغير روائية
and that's priced very low.
وزهيدة السعر.
city of Bangalore.
an in-app notification
has written a sexy short story
قصة قصيرة مثيرة
called Sunny Leone.
تلقب بـ ساني ليون
person, as it happens.
في الهند، كما هو واقعًا.
a collection of sexy short stories
من القصص القصيرة المثيرة
that we'd asked Sunny Leone to write.
طلبنا ساني ليون لتكتب،
what a book is and how a reader behaves,
وكيف يتصرف القارئ
from teenagers to housewives.
إلى ربات المنزل.
an essay, a single short story ...
to the app to write again.
ليكتبون مرة أخرى.
wife, two kids, a good job.
طفلين، وظيفة جيدة.
a book that he loved,
if he could write, too.
الكتابة أيضًا.
he had stories in his mind.
and he couldn't really manage it.
ولا يمكنه إدارتها بفاعلية
the Juggernaut writer's platform.
was that he felt this was a place
head and shoulders, equally,
that he most admired.
a minute here, an hour there,
a little bit of time on his hands.
القليل من الوقت.
extraordinary story for us.
about a family of assassins
بدلهي القديمة.
lanes of Old Delhi.
he'd not only scored a film deal
لم يكسب فقط صفقة فلم
to write another story.
stories on our app.
and we have a long way to go.
ولدينا طريق طويل لنمضيه.
by the end of this year,
بحلول نهاية هذا العام
many priced at under a dollar.
الكثير منها بسعر أقل من دولار واحد.
they've never, ever heard of before.
that comes from our writer's platform.
as checking your email,
the six-inch world of the smartphone,
الذي يبلغ قياسه ستة بوصة
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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