I wonder are we born as readers or do we acquire the taste of reading as we grow? I love reading and when Sampurno was born, I wanted him to be an...

Books. Since birth, I have seen them as a part of my house. The drawing-room walls were adorned by books written by my grandfather (a national level award-winning Bengali writer) and the...

Books have accompanied me everywhere. It has been my companion during travel, a solace during grief or my courage during extreme situations. The books steal our hearts and so do certain characters....

It is just scattered musings of an unnamed protagonist in an unnamed city which reads like poetry in the disguise of prose. The almost plotless book is divided into small chapters woven by a common thread, life of the narrator in a year.