I used to hate books. I even hated the smell of new books, which, surprisingly for me back then, was loved by almost everyone – even those who liked to classify themselves as non-readers. However, an incident turned my detestation for reading into a fondness for books, nay textbooks to be precise. Yeah, you read Read more…
My earliest memories are of sitting on the floor of a bookshop and gazing at pictures in a book. I do not know if these are actual memories or if the image is imprinted in my brain from the stories told to me by my parents. The context here is that, soon after my birth, Read more…
Reading transports you into another universe, helping you escape from and evade reality. Books help us form opinions and ideas and understand the world better. Harry Potter was one series that took me to a fantasy land, a world that I had never been to until then. I was never much into movies, so printed Read more…
I joined the navy as a boy recruit when I was 16. I had not really read anything other than textbooks and Archie comics until then. I was more into sports than books during my school days. I continued my obsession with sports in the navy as well. When I was transferred to a naval Read more…
I never had a knack for reading books. Even during my school days, I used to cram reference books and then sit exams. For me, reading a book was equivalent to taking sleeping pills, the moment I opened a book, my seemingly endless voyage never quite made it past the very first page. Somehow, I Read more…
It all started back when I was a little girl. I hail from Nagpur. I have spent all my life here in the Orange City. My mother worked as a lecturer in a reputed college. She also used to give evening classes to the children living in the neighborhood. I would often accompany her to Read more…
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 belong to a small town in Madhya Pradesh, in the heart of India. Since my childhood days, I was always intrigued by stories. However, I was not much of a reader back then.
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…
