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Joie de reading…the Joy of reading

Reading is one of the most beneficial habits and the benefits are self-obvious. Reading a book is like a journey that begins from the first page and ends when the last page is turned. Like few journeys, the memories remain for the rest of your life. It is like living someone else’s life momentarily. It’s like looking at the world with a different angle, a different perspective.  What reading imparts is broadening of thoughts and unleashing of imagination. Some use it for relaxation, some for gaining knowledge. For some, it’s a meditation. Like it is said, “Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder”, perhaps for reading I would say that “Benefit lies in the eyes of the pursuer”. I developed the habit of reading pretty late in my life. As mentioned in my earlier post, it was through a friend of mine, that I stumbled upon this habit. He used to take me to the scrap dealer’s shop (raddiwala) and we use to search books from the heap of books covered with dust and dirt. We often got