There is a wise saying that goes as follows: Show me the books a man reads and I will tell you his personality. In my younger days, my elders would often tell me to read many moral stories. Such stories would help inculcate in me the virtues of patriotism and honesty, they said, and rightly Read more…

Looking back on the days when I started writing, I invariably end up thinking about my nightmarish days in the eighth grade. After all, that was when things really changed. Back then, I had started losing all my so-called ‘friends’ because, well, my grades had hit rock bottom. I even flunked a couple of subjects. Read more…

Hi everyone! I am Heet Barot and I am about to take you on a fascinating journey, one that turned my life on its head. Believe it or not, this journey started hardly a few months ago. That was when I read a book for the first time ever – outside of my academics, of Read more…

“Now that you folks are in class V, you’ll be taken to the seniors’ library from this year,” announced our teacher as she made us all queue height-wise. Being the little person that I was (and that, FYI, I still am), I stood at the front of the line. I was both eager and excited. Read more…

There are two ways you can explore the world: either by traveling or by reading a lot of books. These were not the words of some famous person, but rather my best friend. He had said this when I asked him how I could learn to write. You see, I was not really fond of Read more…

Hey everyone! I am Shivam Singh Chauhan and I am currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering. This is the story of my journey. Well, my story is rather simple. I am a normal guy who never really had any special interest in anything. That said, I always wanted to stand out Read more…

My mom would always say, “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door for yourself!”. Well, this is what I believed growing up. Born in a middle-class family, all I had in the name of a family was my mother, maternal grandma, and a younger brother. However, that is not to say that my life was Read more…

First experiences are always special and remain close to the heart. Ever wondered what it would be like to have many such first experiences all happening at the same time? Well, they simply get etched in your memory forever. I would have been seven or eight years old when I experienced one such set of Read more…

As a kid, I loved reading children’s stories and fables, and that was largely due to those exquisitely illustrated books. My mother would get me all these storybooks – from the stories of Akbar and Birbal to the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes to Aesop’s Fables and whatnot. However, I could not stand the books that Read more…

There was a time when books were only available as printed copies; smartphones and tablets had yet to revolutionize the way we perceive and look at books. I belong to a generation that grew up in that era, luckily in a family that valued knowledge as much as any other quality needed for survival. Textbooks Read more…