India, April 22 -- For Kubbra Sait, the love for books wasn't something she grew up with, but a habit she inculcated in herself as an adult. "I actually didn't really grow up reading a lot of novels or books, and I never even thought growing up that maybe I will become an author one day. But that is something that I chose to do as an adult. Books came into my life through a conscious choice. It was something that I had to do like an exercise to imagine," she says on World Book Day, adding that self help books became her comfort place.

Reflecting on some of her favourite works, Kubbra Sait shares, "I loved reading The 40 Rules of Love by Elif Shafak, the work by Paulo Coelho and The Seagull by Anton Chekhov. It doesn't matter how big or s...