Discovery of Books

This is my Pichhanwe Karodwa attepmt to write something worthwhile on this blog.

Thanks to Sanjay Joshi , am actually gonna write one today.

A long time ago in 2002 , I can remember very vividly Sanjay was teaching me how to read.... Novels.

Back then I was na⋅ïve and nerdy kid who had never read any literature except the passages reccomended in English Language Class at school and the abriged versions of Tom Sawyer and Robinson Cruso which I glossed over on some hot summer holiday.

I was more intersted in Mathematics and Science, which still continue to exite me. World for me was bunch of equations which once solved , solved all mystries of life.  I truely and logically believed in my own personal bible : Physics by Resnic and Halliday. Newton, Einstein and James Watt were my Gods. (they still are; and like any Hindu Devotee, the list of Gods is still growing).  The IITians were my Dronacharyas and IIT was the Promised Land. 

And then I met Sanjay in Student's Home of Ramaiah Institute of Technology. We became friends instantaneously. Conversations with him ruptured my time-space cosmos and added a completely new dimension to my reality. He talked with me about Leonardo Da Vinci and Che Guvera and the same time. He respected my acadaemic , but encouraged me to think out of box .

We discussed contemporary philosophy, hollywood, science and music.

It was then that I realised , that there is a world out there waiting to be explored. I started reading all kinds of books, provoked by the conversations, to prepare better for the next conversations. It was not easy reading thoes thick novels. The first one took me six months to finish. 

It was the all time classic  'Gone With the Wind' by Margaret Mitchell. Its still my all time favourite, my First Love. I have now read it several times already. But back then, it seemed I would never finish it. I was enjoying each and very word of this magnificient novel. But, after every two pages, I had to sit back and think about what I just read. It was too much to take in and process it with my limited understanding of the world, of love, of war and complexities of human mind.

Since, Gone With the Wind, I have come a long way in the world of books and novels and the journey still seems as exciting as it was the first time. I will be speaking a lot in this blog, about the books I have discovered and enjoyed in the last seven years. But for now I will end this post with the famous quote by Rhett Butler.