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My happiest and most indelible childhood memories are of cycling to the Easwari Lending Library on Lloyds Road, and spending hours selecting my reading list for the week.
The smell of books and the vibes of other booklovers... my first glimpse of what passion is all about.
And then the serene USIS library, exploring the not-so-popular... more »

My happiest and most indelible childhood memories are of cycling to the Easwari Lending Library on Lloyds Road, and spending hours selecting my reading list for the week.
The smell of books and the vibes of other booklovers... my first glimpse of what passion is all about.
And then the serene USIS library, exploring the not-so-popular (in India) authors, and less often at the bustling BCL.
When I started earning, it was afternoons at Landmark. Not the one you see now, but the one in early 90s that was just a hangout for book lovers, not the 'find-all-you-want' vulgarity it is today. Why couldn't they just keep the bookshop seperate?
As life is all about ironies, I end up in a country that has no library, and not even a decent bookshop till a few months ago.
So year after year, the airlines gained,while fleecing me for all the excess weight the books added up to.
But worth every paise I have shelled out I must say.

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