swocasing oseudo erudition

One need not be a politician to have a good collection of Sanskrit books or for that matter any type of book.., and also to have a desire to read..

Luckily most of the treasures of Sanskrit literature are nowadays available in digitized form.. practically free of cost...

Of course one can understand about the huge collection of books by Dr S Radhakrishnan seen in public libraries,, He was a scholar first and scholar last and incidentally was the President of India too..

In many showcases and libraries of showy people we can see the leather-bound shells of great books with golden inscriptions, arranged neatly and permanently fixed to shelves which are locked for ever..

I have no business to remark, but could not help it when I saw some remark about the book collections of politicians in India..

I have downloaded at least twenty to thirty thousand ebooks(maybe because they are free), but could not read even a hundred volumes and my humble personal library collected over thirty years may contain a couple of thousand unread printed books..

Life is a waste.