THE BOOK - A SHORT STORY
Never in my life did I have a person who can be called a 'friend' with whom I could share anything and everything soulfully. Still there are a couple of people whom I meet only once in a while yet as though we met just yesterday. If that can be called friendship, yes, I have a couple of them and one of them became a friend because of a book.
This was way back in 1979. I was doing my post graduation at Sardar Patel University, living in a hostel. The University was in an Education Township called Vallabh Vidyanagar within the city called Anand in Gujarat. The place was almost like an alien land for me as I barely spoke the local language. Nor could I relate myself with the lifestyle in which I had lived for many years.
Opposite to my hostel, across the road, there was a Tea Shop under a huge shadow tree where I used to go for tea and snacks. In fact it was an अड्डा (meeting point) for all the PG and UG students. Over the loud songs played in a cracked radio cum tape player, the students used to discuss everything under the Sun. Politics to Art to Music to Literature to Cinema to Poetry and even Spirituality!
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