Dehradun, Oct. 3 -- The Books from My Shelves

Growing up in the pre-Internet, pre-Google, pre-Netflix era, in a lovely scenic town, with very little influence of modernization, half a century ago, I suppose my recourse to an interesting life was always fiction. Then again, having parents and grandparents who valued the written word, let's just say the die was cast, to turn yet another young one in the family into a bookworm!

Having disdain for people who tend to romanticize what was and what is, I find myself at the crossroads of exactly this same sentiment of wondering what the good old days were like, of reminiscing about my youth and then came along this lovely opportunity of putting into words what was and has always been my one tru...