Growing up in the 1990's in Bangalore before cable TV had encroached upon our lives and the internet was still a thing of the future meant growing up with books. Especially, if your sibling was 6 years younger there was only one thing to do during the vacations in summer when you weren't with friends - read. The first book I owned and treasured was a second hand collection of short stories written by Enid Blyton. How I loved that book! I read and re-read every story in that book until I could tell them by memory. By the age of 9, I started off on the adventures of the Secret Seven and the Famous Five. Enid Blyton was easily the biggest influence of my childhood. I dream't of having my own adventure club and living in the English countryside with its rolling hills and gentle moors and having an outlandishly romantic name like Jane. I even had the name of my adventure series ready - it was to be called The Fabulous Four. As with other convent educated children, English...
Random musings of a wandering mind...