As a child, I remember growing up listening to my grandma’s wonderful stories, which were recited to me as songs. The characters in those stories would meander in my imagination and I would play with all those cows, buffaloes, princes, princesses, and all the other characters that came alive in the colorful world of a Read more…
I still remember the first time I read a book beyond my school syllabus. I was in ninth standard at that time. I was in the middle of my summer holidays and my father brought a few copies of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata from his college library.
My love relationship with reading actually began way back in 2009. I was a ninth-standard kid back then. I can still remember that fateful English class in which we had a story reading session from O. Henry’s collection. It was titled The Girl and the Graft.
My tryst with books began when I was 8 years old, during a vacation when I accidentally stumbled upon my older sister’s English book. I was bored and had no one to play with, which led me to coming across Oliver Twist. Together with it, I conspired to kill my boredom. I had been reading Read more…
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. – Henry David Thoreau
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown was released in March, 2003 and has become one of the best selling novels of all time. It is a fast-paced thriller that will have you glued to its pages.
A hydel-power project in the remote Himalayas. Three people brought together by fate. Nanda, an engineer from Kerala at the dam construction site hiding from his past, from the law, torn between the love of his dear ones and the traditional kalari code of revenge.
A couple of years ago I read The Alchemist and that was the moment I went ‘God! What took this book so long?’. I was not an avid reader and had no interest whatsoever in reading books. The only word that defined my perception of all those picture-less books was ‘boring’.
“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will” – Stephen King
