Books have been my companion for a long time. Every time I pick up a new book to read… it’s like starting on a new voyage… the journey as well as the destination … both not known before hand. The synopsis or the review can give an idea about the various turns and corners to be expected but what will happen actually in the journey cannot be anticipated in full. That is the fun part of it. It’s like life – we know and expect to go through certain phases in life – childhood, youth, love, marriage, children, old age, and death – the entire gamut of living. Yet we never know at the time of our birth as to when childhood will give way to youth or adulthood, whether love will happen the way we expect it to happen! Whether there will be a marriage and so on and so forth…

With books also, we cannot fully anticipate as to what will be there on the next page. The similarities are many and perhaps the reason for it is that whatever we read and write, somewhere it is borne out of our own experiences and thoughts…

Every book for me is a journey into the experiences or thoughts of another individual or many individuals -something to be learnt, something to be identified with, some new idea which helps me know that I do not know so many things – it expands my horizon of thinking and living…

I feel that one of the best investment in life is buying books and spending time with these beautiful friends…who stay with us quietly, do not demand any conversation or attention, are always willing to have a conversation with us whenever we feel like having their company… so happy reading!!!