A friend once told me with disdain. ‘I think fiction books are stupid. Stories about love, hate and all the… stupidities. I only read non-fiction, the real deal.’ He announced why reading fiction is one of the guilty pleasures that humanity indulges in and we are better off never reading it. And he wasn’t the first one to tell me this. The Onslaught Many of my students and parents come to me declaring the usefulness of certain works and subjects and the useless pursuits of story subjects, which I should rather neglect while teaching. Some are willing to concede a little ground. According to them, while these stories might be a good 'time-pass', they might not land their kids a good career, a good social standing or a good job. While it is good to patronise them, these storybooks do not mean anything in the real world. Maybe one can read them for a couple of hours in a week, if at all. But no one is going to employ them or marry them for reading storybooks. Some are b...
Prashant's Solace
I sincerely try to follow and ponder over all that stimulates me... beauty, innocence, violence, emotion, action, reaction and so on. Find my take on all of these and much more on this blog.