Dehradun, Dec. 14 -- Garhwal Post Bureau

DEHRADUN, 13 Dec: A very engaging discussion was held on the second day of the ongoing Crime Literature Festival of India, being hosted at Hotel Hyatt Centric in Dehradun, on the influence and history of pulp fiction, particularly in Hindi. The focal point of the discussion was a book authored by a very senior journalist and presently Consulting Group Editor with Amar Ujala, Yashwant Vyas. The book is titled Begumpur Se Daryaganj: Dastan-e Desi Pulp and is written in Hindi.

Participating in the discussion were author Yashwant Vyas himself, publisher Subodh Bharatiya, bookseller Randhir Arora of Book World, while the session was moderated by journalist Sanjiv Mishra, who has himself recently autho...