I had been a big fan of books since my childhood. After all, we didn’t have TVs or cell phones for entertainment. We would either be at the playground or doing something productive at home, like making handcrafted items. I also spent my leisure hours reading the newspaper, specifically the sports and current affair sections. Read more…

They say that memories play an integral part in a person’s life and, out of the millions that I have made, the most special ones go back to my school days where this love affair started. You can love so many things in life, yet none will remain as lasting as the stories engraved on Read more…

Well, we will need to go a long way back to understand my chemistry with books. I feel that my penchant for books is purely genetic as both my parents and grandparents had healthy reading habits. As they say, when you enjoy doing something, you lose track of everything around you. That’s just how I Read more…

At a time when, fortunately, our parents offered us a very restricted, if at all any, access to mobile phoContentnes, and soap operas mainly catered to the saas and bahus (read cheesy family dramas), we had no option but to look for other modes of entertainment. As fate would have it, I stumbled upon my Read more…

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. Dr. Seuss Stories are the best thing that can happen to a child.  As a child grows up, so does his inherent yearning for stories. I often look back at the time when I Read more…

I would describe myself as a reader in one sentence: “Do not leave me unsupervised in a bookstore.” I started reading books when I was nearly 8 years old. Once there arrived a ship full of books in the port near my home. I visited it with my elder sister. I was utterly awed to Read more…

Coming from a small town, studying in a state-board school and choosing the science stream for my high-school life (yep, checking all the boxes for an engineering career), I was told that I was supposed to be reading every day. And read I did. I read my textbooks, every single day. For all its benefits, Read more…

I spent my entire childhood in small villages. I always felt the urge to compete with and surpass my cousins, all of whom had grown up in cities. That was when it, or rather they happened. Books and poetry entered my life and had a profound impact on it. In the beginning, it was all Read more…

Call me old-fashioned, but I’m the type of person who’d choose reading over any other form or method of learning. I have no one else but my mother to thank for that. Having been brought up at a time when education was highly discouraged by her family, she made sure that three of her children Read more…