I always enjoyed reading as a child. For me, it was more than just a hobby; it was something that could liven up my entire day. I quickly discovered how much I enjoyed tracing the black-inked letters in everything – from school textbooks to my mother’s Femina magazines. In fact, I loved reading so much Read more…

Hey, guys! I am Milind Lal and I am here to take you on a decade’s worth of journey over the next few paragraphs. I am 20 now. However, as I glance back at the last 10-12 years of my life, I find that books have played a major role in making me the person Read more…

My childhood was all about books – whether it was the stories they contained, the smell of new and used books, or the excitement of buying new books. It almost feels like I grew up reading books like Beauty and the Beast, Naughty Amelia Jane, Geronimo Stilton, Gilmore Girls, The Lord of the Rings, The 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…

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…

From the age I could hold a pencil, my mother brought me a multitude of coloring books. Now, I hate to break this to you, but I was (and probably still am) the worst painter of the century. But only losers quit, so I continued making those terrible paintings. After an awful lot of execrable Read more…