How Indians Read – as in what do Indians, that is, most of us, read and why so.
Nowadays, the reading culture across the world is almost the same. It was not so sometime time back. Books available to the western world were not available to us and neither were our books available to them. There was a gap, a disparity. However, the scene has changed now. India is an upcoming market for the latest books in any genre. Material is available out there, we need to take an effort to choose, buy and start reading.
Caveat: Every part of the world needs to be qualified. It need not be every nook, corner and the gaps, but understandably every city or county where books are available, published, circulated, borrowed and discussed.
Now that is not exactly what I am here to discuss. What I wanted to say is that in India in general, take the small or big cities, towns or villages, books or any form of printed material or paper is widely available and used a variety of forms. The uses of the printed word available in the paper form is many and unbelievable at times. Reading forms the first choice, the primary purpose for the printing it. Thereafter, it takes the form and shape of so many utilities.
Let’s take the example of the newspaper: We read it, stack it for a month or a year and sell it off to a vendor in exchange of money. Newspaper then is a “goods” that is bartered, therefore, it becomes “currency.” From the vendor, it changes hands to either the recycling factory to become paper cups, plates, spoons & bags, (the famous FabIndia ones) at one side. On the other hand, it makes its way into the shops – to become the wrapping material for the customers to carry back home — it can re-enter our hands and home when we buy vada pav, or roasted groundnuts or vegetables in different shapes or shapeless forms depending on the wrapping abilities of the seller. Sometimes, it’s on purpose used to couch our purchases of sanitary pads and liquor bottles (I really have no answer to such a surreptitious practice!) It becomes blotting papers to suck out the oil from hot tasty pakodas deep fried right from the wok when in the kitchen… becomes napkins when nothing else is available to wipe our dirty hands on… or polish shoes, or made into hats when the sun is shining in his brightest…
Some even exchange paper for kitchen utensils and clothes..
So many uses and unique ways of reusing something like the printed paper and unlimited uses…. sometimes, it may also end up being used for purposes its makers never thought of…
Go ahead, list your thoughts on this, and the uses you see of the paper if you use or see it around…
Good day, happy Sunday and wishing you a great week ahead…
And so life goes on… really, something happens, trouble in paradise, devices to correct it, then a solution runs into the picture, balance restored, all calm again, it becomes a memory, and it fades away! To laugh at some time in future — Life.
And I dominate my family, my husband, my inlaws, my friends! the fact of the matter, she hasn’t seen any of my family, neither talked to them! Divya drishti! totally
So here we are again, at the threshold of another new beginning, the new year of 2012 
There is nothing to go gaga over the movie.. There is that style. It starts with an S and ends with an E. Period. S
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Mission Impossible
