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All of you would agree with me that books are better companion and worth spending time on than watching mindless programs on the Television. But still many of us don’t go to book store exclusively to get books. Even if we go, we end up buying music CDs or movies on DVD. When I say books, it could be novel (fiction, non-fiction), magazines, comics or any technical books. I still remember when I was young my father would buy me all the good comics available in 80s and 90s. I have read almost every Phantom, Mandrake and Lothar, Bahadur, Chacha Chowdhary and numbers of "Amar Chitra Katha". I dont think kids these days even look at "Amar Chitra Katha". These days kids are hooked to TV, or Computer playing video games.

I used to love reading mythological stories. Every summer holidays, I would spend (if we are not vacationing) my entire day reading Amar Chitra Katha Collection and I have read all of them many-many times. I must say that you learn a lot by reading Amar Chitra Katha. I thank god that in those days only rich could get TV and there were not many broadcaster, or rather only one "Doordarshan". After the invasion of Internet, I think whatever percentage of population were buying books, that also stopped. Browsing internet is good if you know what you want to browse. But many of us would just surf the net without exactly knowing what we are looking for and then jump from page to page wasting time.

Not many would have know Vikas Swarup till "Slumdog Millionaire" became a hit. His book "Q & A" inspired the movie makers of "Slumdog Millionaire". I bet none of the Indian Producers and Directors thought that they could make a movie out of "Q & A". To tell you the truth, none of the Indian Producers and Directors know how to make a movie out of a book. They were and still are producing the same crap movie about love story, hero running after heroine, singing song in rain. And there are some producer who are producing so called "hat ke" movie, are copying the adult story line from Hollywood. Bollywood where is your originality. I bet that even after the success of "Q & A", none of the Indian Directors coould make a movie of Vikas Swarup second book "Six Suspects". We have some of the best writers who have given us great books and novels. Each of them has their own style of writing. Here is the list of some of the best writers India has produced:

• Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
• Premchand
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Anita Desai
• Arundhati Roy
• Jhumpa Lahiri
• Mulk Raj Anand
• R.K. Narayan
• Salman Rushdie
• Vikram Seth
• V.S. Naipaul
• Kiran Desai
• Mahadevi Varma
• Shashi Deshpande
• Shobha De
• Khushwant Singh
• Nirad C. Chaudhuri
• Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
• Subramanya Bharathi
• Mahasweta Devi

I am going to a book store this evening and will definitely pickup a book of one of these witers.