Dehradun, Oct. 9 -- The Books from My Shelves

"There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen."- Lenin

These past six weeks have seen an unprecedented intensity in our engagement with the books which had not been witnessed in the past few decades.

As this Book Fest winds down for now, I must thank all the thirty five writers for sharing their enjoyment of the books and the Garhwal Post for hosting it. We do hope that our readers too must have found their joy in reading about close to 350 books introduced in this series.

Books made a rather belated entry into my life as, in the 1960s, we had neither any bookshops nor any library in that part of the remotest Himalayan region where I grew up. But much la...