My first entry

Welcome all.

Well this is my very first entry, in my very first blog. And since, I believe in straight talk..let me state what I'll be posting here..I'll mostly be writing about the books that i have been reading (well, the influential ones), quotes from them, about politics, love, my life( some interesting events off course!).

To start with;

the idea of writing a blog struck me not because it is something glamorous to do these days (as most of my friends do it because it is something in vogue), but something that struck me when I went through these lines of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf". Well, the lines are:

" I know people who read interminably, book after book, from page to page, and yet I should not call them 'well-read people.' Of course they 'know' an immense amount; but their brain seems incapable of assorting and classifying the material which they have gathered from the books. They have not the faculty of distinguishing between what is useful and useless in a book; so that they may retain the former in their minds and if possible skip over the latter while reading, or if that be not possible, then- when once read- throw it overboard as useless ballast. reading is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. It's chief purpose i to help towards filling in the framework which is made up of talents and capabilities that each individual possesses. Thus each one procures for himself the implements and materials necessary for the fulfillment of his calling in life, no matter whether this be the elementary task of earning one's daily bread or a calling that responds to higher human aspirations. such is the first purpose of reading. And the second purpose is to give a general knowledge of the world in which we live....each little piece of knowledge thus gained must be treated as if it were a little stone to be inserted into a mosaic, so that it finds its proper place among all the other pieces and particles that help to form a general world-picture in the brain of the reader."

I am an avid reader, I read as if there is no tomorrow, but then I don't read without purpose, as these books for me are like a peep into a different world or the same world but with a different view of things and people, that usually escapes our eyes. I keep on collecting each little piece of knowledge gained from these books to form a world-picture in my mind. Just like a child fits in the jumbled parts of a jig-saw puzzle to form a concrete picture. Because, what we always see around us might not be always true, it is a luminous halo and we don't know what to make out of something in front of us. But, these books, they help us reflect on our general surrounding and to form a more concrete and true picture of the world around us.

And thus, coming back to the purpose of my writing a blog is that sometime back somebody said that "knowledge gained and not shared is knowledge wasted". And I hope that sharing the knowledge I gain by reading these books helps you and me in some ways.