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My Kingdom of Treasures!
Jun 20, 2006 01:03 AM 8069 Views

The things we truly enjoy pass away so quickly.


Present is always too slow and never ending.


and the future? - always so distant!


I think I can include all the books till now, as I am still a child at heart! I dont know where I began with, perhaps it was a small nearby library where my elder sister used to go. Wow, how would I know, that those books would make me richer than all the kings of the world, that I would know about princes and treasures, mysteries and murder, and would become a part of stories from everywhere around the world.


Kudos to all those brilliant authors, who not only have the capacity to describe so simply yet completely, that you cant help but become one with their stories and words.


Most of my non-academic reading I have done in Vacation time!. Only in my late teenage years did I use even my academic schedule to devour books and novels which I couldnt resist.


My first encounter with any form of reading that I seriously enjoyed was **comics.


* I loved phantom(the ghost who walks), Tintin, Mandrake the Magician, Ramayana, Mahabharata and the other Pictured stories from Indian Mythology.


The stories were so simple, Good would always win, there was always a wonderful moral. And which kid wouldnt love the magic of mandrake, or bravery of phantom and the powers they had? They would stay and impress upon my young mind for so long.  I would keep them under my pillow and go to sleep.:).


Of these I loved the adventures of tintin, and Amar chitra katha very much.


I would enjoy shifting to another world, and travel along with tintin and the captain too!, to expeditions, palaces, mountains, under seas and everywhere, with his dog snowy. Who can forget the expressions blistering typhoons? Amarchitra katha had lots of intelligent stories with simple morals.


Tintin and Archie continued into my next stage, I was a bit more older now around 10ish!, and I started reading important stuff! which included Champak series too!


Another vacation, and I had stumbled upon biographies.


I had started reading in my own mother tongue now, Gujarati, and had found it quite convenient to follow.


My Experiments with Truth was the first book I read in gujarati, but soon followed it up with english version which was simple enough.


I didnot understand  most of it though, in terms of gandhian values and hi-fi principles but the flavour it left me with was more than sufficient to keep my passionate about India's freedom struggle.  I loved the passages relating to his childhood stage, how he would recite lord hanuman's name etc etc


I would re-read it again in future time, just to fall in love with the courageous personality that our father of the nation was.


Shortly thereafter I read in quick succession  Biographies of **Bhagat singh, Balwant Phadke, Ram Prasad Bismil, Tatya Tope, Queen Laxmibai and Nana Saheb Peshwa and others.



I havent yet forgotten the impact of Tatya tope's biography, and Gandhiji's autobiography yet. Tatya tope was a great planner, and a brilliant war tactitian!


Ofcourse the 1857 mutiny failed, but the lessons of the first fight went on to inspire the fighters of 1947 in their own ways.


I always wanted to have Rani Laxmibai's sword and Rana Pratap singh's Horse Chetak!Jhansi ki Rani also left a strong impression on my mind - Imagine a young girl at age of 14 getting married, and adopting a baby at age of 16, and giving nightmares to the British!


The library would charge only Rs 2 per month in the 1980s and early 1990s it had increased to Rs8.


My love for the people who not only were brave but had done so much for the country, continued to rise and has never left still.


Any freedom fighter could have sought a much better life, yet the values they had, the vision they had seen, and the deeds they have done, are always un comparable to the greatest things our present celebrity stars achieve.


One word I still remember from Vivekanand's short biography I had read, which applied to all these people too: Courage.


India's heroes were unafraid. Not afraid of anything or anybody.


Ordinary People with Extra-ordinary guts.


Around the time of my end of primary school I fell in love with two english chapters, one was tom sawyer and other was david copperfield's chapter where someone runs away with his baggage!


David Copperfield was my first real english novel that I read in the vacation of 7th standard. And I remember reading it twice because first time I had missed all the details of the countryside, just to get along with the story. Here was an innocent boy's life through his childhood and into adulthood, and the struggles he faced courageously. The best thing about this character was, he doesnt become bad, inspite of his circumstances, and though it was fiction, I always knew, there will always be Uriah Heeps and there will always be David Copperfields. Choice would always be mine, as to whose ways to follow. Charles Dickens was simply someone who wrote so much in simple words yet it was so effective.


This book brought me to Enid Blyton, and the famous five series. Then I started enjoying mysteries more! and my librarian suggested 3 investigators by Alfred hitchcock, starring bob andrews, pete crenshew and jupiter jones!These were 3 kids who solved mysteries which even their hometown police couldnt.


Then came the  Hardy boys who too became my ideals! Though they were a bit more elder to me, had girlfriends and cars too and I was a toddler compared to them, nevertheless, their mysteries had its own charm.


Agatha Christie and Sherlock holmes made sure, that I stay an avid reader all through my next vacation. I loved Sherlock holmes more, as he had that special style of analysing everything and coming to perfect conclusions. Yet agatha christie's stories like the zero hour never failed to keep me spell bound from the moment I start the first page to the last one.


I was Addicted to books, and I was enjoying it!


I had devoured many a books by buying directly by postal order from pustak mahal, delhi. Rs 25 would hit hard to the pocket money that I received, but usually they would prove worth it.


I think Sherlock holmes was the last favourite read of my so called childhood, after which I turned to Sidney Sheldon, Ayn Ra.nd, John Grisham, Chicken Soup for soul and other books which involved plots, murders, harsh realities of lives, books like Godfather and Zen and Art of Motor cycle maintainence, and various other books.


Each book in my childhood contributed in its own way in making my time the best that had ever been. They were simple yet effective. My favourite of all of them remains David Copperfield and  the biography of tatya tope, who I always thought was perhaps the most intelligent fighter in the revolution of 1857.


Books are your best friends.that was how d bournvita quiz contest would start! And they really are an inseparable memory of my childhood vacations


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