Cycle of Cliches
Tezpur, the hometown of my parents, was my world then.
The wardrobe in the bald, bespectacled, sturdy author with a big nose reminded me of the four bookshelves we had in our Tezpur house. Well, we still have. Those are my father’s bookshelves. I have never counted the books we have in those four bookshelves, but I think, if we spread them on the floor, they would occupy both of our bedrooms, our drawing room, kitchen as well as the verandah. And as Ma kept telling, my father had read all of them, and many more, and that he had read most of them more than once. As a kid and a teenager, I used to wonder how someone could read so many books in one short life-time of just fifty-seven years and