Dehradun, Sept. 30 -- Books from My Shelves

I am thankful for being invited to write about 10 books I have read and would recommend to the readers. I am doing this with substantial pleasure in the hope that at least some readers would find it worth their while in selecting books they plan to read in future or would like to revisit their past loves (books, primarily) for further inspiration and taste. And I am particularly eager about the young readers who would be setting their intellectual tastes for the coming decades and generations.

I started reading early in childhood out of curiosity and developed a taste for the written word. That propensity grew into a networking with great minds across time and geography, and finally developed in...