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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.
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.
I had been leading a very hectic life after the sudden demise of my husband. Looking after two young kids, planning for their education and, above all, running the household without any inflow of income… all responsibility had fallen on my shoulders. I started working in a school. Simultaneously, I started giving evening classes to Read more…
My story isn’t one in which I fell in love with a book. My life wasn’t changed dramatically by reading a great author’s fine work. Books didn’t affect the biggest decision I made in my life. They just influenced every little one. As a child, I didn’t read much, probably because it required lots of Read more…
As a child, I had the most loving and caring parents in the world. I grew up listening to my father reading me bedtime stories such as Cinderella, The Sleeping Beauty, and Aesop’s Fables. As he narrated those tales, I would imagine all the characters and draw sketches in my mind. And that’s how I Read more…