“In a good bookroom you
feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all
the books through your skin, without even opening them.” ~Mark Twain
I could not have agreed more to it. I
cannot imagine a world without public libraries, a world without beautiful
books all piled up systematically, waiting to be sniffed, felt and read. My
earliest memories of childhood are of a 5 year old me with my nose into an Enid
Blyton book I found in my father’s bookshelf. I can still remember how I used
to stand outside my school library as a kid, waiting for the lunch hour to
strike so that I could get free access to all the books inside. The day I got
my membership card for the local public library was perhaps one of the happiest
moments of my life.
