What a funny turn life has taken!

What a funny turn life has taken!

As a boy I had struggled to obtain some good reading material..

Even an old newspaper or an old periodical was difficult to get..

Used ot read even printed papers strewn on the street or coming as packings to some grocery material..

To read a childrens magazine was almost like living in the seventh heaven..

Building castles.. Seeing dreams....

Walked miles and miles to visit libraries.. and fought with many to get some good books..

Later, subscribed to papers, magazines, and purchased books finding no time to read..

And when books and newspapers cluttered the house, someone else would forcibly remove them from my custody and would sell them to the village vendor who collects them and pays for them some petty price based on weight..

Returned many books borrowed from libraries without reading them, and paying heavy fines too for overshooting the limit for keeping them by weeks and months..

Now, thousands of ebooks.. downloaded from the web,, and scanned..

With no time, no good eyesight, not sufficient verve, to read even a few pages a day..

But still the love for printed words and any words or letters .. is obsessive..