As I look back over the years, I realize that I have changed. And one of the key factors behind the change has been my love for books. My earliest recollections of my reading days are from mid 60s at Uran – a small town off-coast of Mumbai (now facing Nhava Sheva port). My first recolection of the printed page is of reading Uncle Scrooge comics under the guidance of my mother. Initially, it was just glancing thru the pages but somewhere over those initial years, I started reading – and never stopped.  My parents arranged for me my initial collection of Disney comics- and it was the golden age of comics…We subscribed to the Indrajal Comics and I used to get my periodic dose of the phantom (Lee Faulk) and Mandrake -and Parag ( a popular children’s monthly magazine). The love affair with these took fancy turns at school – I remember getting caught reading the stories from under the desk by my teachers! In any case, I was doing well in the studies – and I got off with a minor counselling. Later, I remember getting Ruskin Bond’s ‘Hidden Pool’ as my first award when I topped the … Continue reading 1. I changed!