Since my child-hood, I was very much interested in reading news-papers, magazines & books. And I was more keen and interested in reading stories. My first friend was my Father and after him "Books " became my true friend & companion. Those were the days, after coming back home from school, I used to lock myself in a small study room and read story books & magazines, alone. In earlier days of my child hood, I was fond of reading Sanmarg, Dainik Vishwamitra, Chandamama, Nandan, Parag, Sarita/Mukta, Sarika and Dharamyug (all in Hindi); Desh Darpan, Navi Prabhat and Sajripar in (Gurmukhi); Bartoman, Ananda Bazar Patrika , Desh and Anandomela (in Bengali) and The Statesman, Junior-Statesman, Amrita Bazar Patrika and Illustrated weekly of India in English language. And when I went to high school, I started reading Fictions for two rerasons:
1) Fiction used to be a long story
2) I can borow it from liabrary.
The first two books which has changed my life up-side down were: -
1) Bharat Gandhi Aur Main by Acharaya Shree Rajneesh/Osho - (Non fiction in Hindi)
2) Sampada by GuruDutt (Hindi Fiction)
And there-after a new chapter started in my life and I had started visiting National Library at New Alipore, Calcutta, (which was only 5-KM away from my house), to read more and more books. National Library was an ocean of books and I got the treasure of books in all Indian and International languages. First I started reading books in Gurmukhi, Hindi, Bengali & English languages and later I had read books written in Marathi, Malayalam, Uriah, Kanad, Tamil and Telagu (all were available in Hindi translation); and believe you me, I could not finish reading even 5% of it's stock till date.
Today, it's more than 40 years and not even once my friends have ever left me alone, they were always there with me when-ever and where-ever I wanted them to be. I have passed good days and bad days in the company of my books. I will always remain indebt to them for their un-conditional support, help, guidance and love, after all they are my best buddy and my best friends - "Books". I wanted to share first list of my favourite books with you, which are: -
A) Books in English:
1) The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
2) On The Wings of Eagle by Ken Follett
3) To Sir With Love by E. R. Braithwaite
4) The Fountain Head by Ayn Rand
5) The Man by Irving Wallace
B) Books in Hindi:
1) Chitralekha by Bhagwati Charan Verma
2) Nacheo Bahut Gopal by Amrit Lal Nagar
3) Sath Saha Gaya Dukh by Manu Bhandari
4) Jahaj Ke Panchi by Ila Chander Joshi
5) Kali Andhai by Kamleshwar
C) Books in Indian Regional Languages:
1) Chowranghee by Manishankar Mukhopadhya (Shankar) in Bengali
2) Yayati by Vishnu Shakharam Khadekar in Marathi
3) Rukhkha Di Zirandh by Gurbaksh Singh in Punjabi
4) Mrityunje by Shivaji Samant in Marathi
5) Dropadi by Pratibha Rai in Orria
D) Biography:
1) Kya Bhulu Kya Yaad Karu (4-parts) by Hari Vansh Rai Bachhan in Hindi
2) Rasidi Ticket by Amrita Pritam in Gurmukhi
3) J. Krishna Murty by Pupul Jaykar
4) My Story by Kamla Das
5) JRD by Russi M. Lala
I would request you to please try to make atleast one such a good friend who remain with you through-out your life and trust you me, you will not regret it. If you like my list of books, just write to me at: gsmukker@gmail.com; and I will send you my second list of my favourite books, I promise that.
With Prayers,
Sincerely,
gurcharan.
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