On the World Book Day
Today is World Book Day. I intend to celebrate it by just reading. For me, one of the advantages of having locked down at home is the opportunity to bury myself in the ocean of my books. I don’t remember who, but somebody said to me that a room with no books seems as though a body without soul or life. So I made a bookshelf I can lose myself in for hours every day. It is one of my best investments. Just staring at the bookshelf, wondering what to read next, is meditative.
Books give thoughts to the mind, wings to imagination and dreams, and life and strength to everything else. They are the best and most trusted of companions.
My Treasure
I have a sizeable collection of books and then some more. They are of all genres. By bestselling authors and novelists, I am just discovering. I like trying to crack murder mysteries and unravel suspense thrillers. And I enjoy returning to books I loved to read as a boy. Enid Blyton’s ‘Famous Five’, the ‘Secret Seven’ and ‘Five Find-Outers’, Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Three Investigators’, Franklin W. Dixon’s ‘Hardy Boys’ and Richmal Crompton’s ‘William’. Good old Archie, too! I have a 1,000-page compendium of Archie comics with 100 classic stories.
I Echo this
A wise person once said “you are the books you read, the films you watch, the music you listen to. The people you spend time with, the conversation you engage in. Choose wisely what you feed your mind. It’s true. What a simple joy you find as you spend a lazy day at home, while you read? TV is depressing. All sadness and sickness. But the feel of a book’s pages, the sound of them turning under my fingertips, the smell of the print is healing. A book feels, sounds, and smells like happiness. And as I open the cover of a book. I’m opening the doorway to another world. From which I will only step away when the last page I read.
About Mark Manuel
The above thoughts/content has been proudly copied from the wall of Sir Mark Manuel Someone who has interviewed almost every role model this country has to offer as of now. Mark Manuel is a respected Mumbai editor, writer, and columnist. With over three decades of journalism in leading publications including the Free Press Journal, Times, Dainik Bhaskar, Mid-Day, and Afternoon. He is widely known for his brilliantly penned interviews. He himself is a TEDx speaker.
His interviews have featured in several leading media houses. They include the Hindustan Times, Huffington Post, BBC, and Network 18. Almost every famous person has been interviewed by him. In the country from Mother Teresa to Muhammad Ali. His first book is just out. It’s titled Moryaa Re! It is a crime thriller that is perhaps the country’s first police procedural. He began his career covering crime. And in a tribute to his experience and knowledge of this beat. Several distinguished officers of the Mumbai Police and its Crime Branch collaborated with him to make this book possible. In a statement of friendship for Mark Manuel and admiration for his work, Amitabh Bachchan wrote the forward.
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