BOOKS AMEYA

How reading changed Bhavana aka Vartika's life

The one book that made Vartika feel alive

“Dreams shape beautifully”, but little did I know that it could be this beautiful! It’s not about right and wrong, not even about the dos and don’ts. It’s just about that one little thing that makes you feel gung-ho! Yes, that’s how I felt reading this book titled Potpourri by Speakout. It taught me how Read more…

How Crowny Tegamchi Cheran started reading

How reading helped Crowny develop a scientific outlook

Every person’s life is in a book, half filled, and half yet to be written. Will you be the author to yours? Books were my companion when, as a child, I had very few interactions with the outside world. The other cool kids always knew the moves to the latest songs, the latest shows, and Read more…

How Priya Swaminathan's eighth standard English teacher motivated her to start reading

Priya: The transformation of an avid reader into a renowned author

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…

Jeffrey Archer's 'Only Time Will Tell' by Sukriti

How an elder brother and Jeffrey Archer inspired SuKriti from Delhi to read

“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…

HOW RIA MISHRA FROM BHUBANESWAR STARTED READING

Ria’s journey from a Libra to a “libraria”

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…

How Shalin from Mumbai developed a taste for reading

How Shalin from Mumbai developed a taste for reading

It is said that a book is not a set of words meant to be read, but rather a whole journey to be experienced and relived time and again. That has been the case with me. I close my eyes, and I’m transported back in time, 15 years ago. It was my third birthday. My Read more…

How Lakshay Dayal Mathur from Delhi started reading

How books helped Lakshay from New Delhi overcome depression

I was (and still am) an introvert and it took me a lot of time to come to terms with it (not that being introvert is some sort of cancer). As a child, I was not very much inclined to attend family functions or birthday parties. Books always succored me in those situations. As I Read more…