26. May the Towel be with You

Towel Day Highlights, a DNA mini quiz, and a request

26 May. Towel Day India ‘24 - Kunzum Vasant Vihar. 22 Froods celebrating Douglas Noel Adams (1952-2001)

Dear Reader,

“We may not have gone where we intended to go, but we think we have ended up where we needed to be.” (paraphrasing Douglas Adams)

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Towel Day Online - a dream come true

After getting introduced to Beeblebears by Towel Day Ambassador 2023

Yvette Keller

earlier last week, we celebrated May 25 from the confines of our bibliocave by chatting with

Kevin Jon Davies

, a Hitchhiker fan since 1978 and author of ‘42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams’ and the brand-new ‘I Never Could Get The Hang of Thursdays’…

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I also went live on Instagram for 42-odd minutes with my towel at hand, for the first time in over 2 years. It was fun reading from the book and interacting with readers.

Nandini and I also enjoyed saying hi to Hitchhiker fans in London who had gathered to celebrate Towel Day with Kevin and David Learner, the actor who played Marvin the Paranoid Android in the BBC show.

Towel Day Offline Edition

Sunday, May 26, was spent in the company of fellow froods who braved the 42-degrees-plus scorching weather to show up at Kunzum, Vasant Vihar, with their towels at hand. A huge round of thanks to everyone!

Each hoopy person received a copy of our curated Towel Day magazine - DNA 42

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Some glimpses -

Clockwise from left center: Readers introducing themselves to each other, A Guided Reading Meditation led by Nandini - we read and discussed DNA’s 1999 essay on how to love the internet, 2/3rds of Team Puddle receiving their Towel Day prizes (courtesy Pan Macmillan India) for winning the DNA quiz by a whisker, us

DNA mini-quiz (answers in footnotes)

Q1. DNA was invited to play guitar on his Xth birthday by his friend. They played Brain Damage and Eclipse. Name the band and X.¹

Q2. This Indian TV actor is a huge fan of Douglas Adams and once went on Twitter lamenting the fact that he didn’t know Dirk Gently was being made into a Netflix show. Who is he?²

A bunch of us stayed back for an afterparty at Aku’s: the Burger Co (pronounced as aaah-koos), the designated Restaurant at the End of the Universe, complete with futuristic interiors…

…wrapping up the third offline edition of Towel Day India celebrated by fellow readers and us, in association with Pan Macmillan India and Kunzum Books.

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We will be back next year with our towels at hand. Save the date :)

Till then, bookmark the below post. It is a repository of everything Douglas Adams-related we can find, updated at intervals. At the moment, you will find this post (and the previous letter) along with the essay we read this Towel Day there.

Happy Reading :) ~ Nitin

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