Books are a man’s best friend. This adage has been proven time and again. Any one born in the pre-digital era will list out their collection of books and their favourite authors in a jiffy. During my growing years (80s-90s), Panchatantra , Amar Chitra Katha , Hitopadesha , Champak and Readers Digest , were my best friends during train travel and vacations. I don’t exactly recollect how and when I fell in love with the print for the first time, but I do remember when I did, it was meant to be a forever bond! Whether I was happy, sad or angry, I would just go to my corner and read my favourite book. I still remember the morning of my Xth board exams. I had an unfinished novel in my hand. Such was my love for books! Other days, after school hours and play time, at least half an hour was reserved for reading aloud newspaper stories and headlines and sometimes, solving an occasional Crossword. Those were the Doordarshan days when the television channels would blank out automat
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