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A cheery reading spot can be a personal sanctuary
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Photo: R.Ragu
Passionate pastime A sip and a read gel well for a book-lover
With the bedside lamp tunnelling its light onto the page, Chandrasekar, a bibliophile, reads and reads. And reads some more. Graying at the temples and bulging at the hips, he seats himself propped by pillows. The paintings and frescos in soft colours in the room glow in the diffused spread of auburn light. Nearby, an eclectic mix of fiction and poetry, science fiction and biographies, religion and philosophy, fill the shelves. “Its my world within the world.”
Gangadhar, a youngster with a craze for Stephen Covey kind of books, has a ritual of reading. He lies down on the bed and holds the book on his chest and feels its weight grow. In time, he brings the book in line with the floor, edging his neck out of the bed. Newton’s gravitation pulls his head down causing a slight disorientation, if not an outright blackout. He turns back, keeping the book on his chest. Then back again. “I like reading in my bed,” he says. “When I am in bedroom, I can close the door, block out the noise of TV,” he adds. Moreover, the spot associated with reading makes you get into the right frame of mind to read. “Yeah, definitely. The setting, the cushy chair is important.”
For outdoor persons, reading spot could be anywhere they can land their eyes on the book. Mounika, a management student, says: “I like to read in the garden, a garden filled with roses and jasmines.” With a waft of sweet smell, she launches herself into novels, “which can teach us how characters work and how they manage their lives.” Vishnu, an executive who travels a lot by train, shares his experience: “As soon as I get into a train, I go to the window side. The view outside of the fields, the cattle, the hills, blur past with a little rollicking movement of the wagon. “With a book to read, I feel at home wherever I am.”
Personal and personalized, these reading spots lend themselves to intimacy and affinity.
G.B.S.N.P. VARMA
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