Books have been my companions since childhood. My parents and teachers encouraged me to read as much as I could. Amar Chitra Katha comics, Chandamama and Champak; soon gave way to Readers’ Digest, mystery novels by Enid Blyton; Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mystery novels; followed closely by the mushy and romantic, Mills & Boon Read more…

Reading is a habit that caught me when I was a teeny human being full of curiosity, wonder, and a  sense of not belonging anywhere. I don’t really know who the culprit was behind me getting enamored with reading: my mom, who got me those mini story books from my school fair, or my aunt, Read more…

Summary: It is the early nineteenth century. The British East India Company has been bringing in Chinese indentured laborers to work in the tea gardens of Assam and West Bengal. Amidst days of misery and toil, they slowly begin to find contentment in their day-to-day lives. Descended from the slave Ho Han, Mei Lin lives Read more…

“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I have accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to Read more…

Summary: Lavanya Gogoi is from the scenic hills of Shillong while Rajveer Saini belongs to the shahi city of Patiala. Worlds apart from one another, the two land up next to each other on a flight from Mumbai to Chandigarh. It’s love at first flight, at least for one of them. For the other… well, it’s Read more…

Since the fateful day when Johannes Gutenberg pressed the first book, the fate of the whole world changed for the better. Now, fast forward a few centuries and you’ve got a quintessential middle-school girl being forced to read a book in a hobby class tailor-made to make some troublesome and hormonal kids read for fun. Read more…