Being in Tamil, my mother tongue, and written in simple Tamil, these authors and magazines got me hooked in to reading which really helped in laying the foundation for future to get in to some serious reading.Īs a beginner, I didn’t and couldn’t differentiate between the authors, I kept reading all kinds of authors without partiality!! Thanks to these authors, they opened various doors and worlds, just sitting at my home. Thanks to my parents, our dinner and weekend meal sessions were always lively with discussion about stories, movies, events, and politics. #En Iniya Iyanthira Serial serial#Got in to reading serial stories, since they got discussed over lunch and dinner at my home. I didn’t discriminate between magazines ( Vikatan, Kumudam, Kungumam, Idhayam, Kalkandu, Pesumpadam, Bommai, Raani, Kalaimagal, Dinamanikathir, Kalki, Saavi, Raanimuthu) or authors ( Rajeshkumar, Rajendrakumar, Pattukottai Prabhakar, Lakshmi, Sivasankari, Anuradha Ramanan, Geetha Bennett, Stella Bruce, Tamilvanan, Balakumaran, Bhagyam Ramasamy, Sujata, Ki.Ra.). Books opened the world to rest of the world. This I would say a golden period of growing up with books. We get the new magazines on the day of release and got to keep it for 3 days. We got pretty much all periodicals, thanks to newspaper person who had a circulation library kind of sort. Things changed when we moved to Nagercoil, beginning of my 7 th grade. With periodicals, my reading was restricted to tidbits, jokes, and stories in Ambuli Mama, till we moved to Nagercoil. Also, got to read The Steel Claw, both in English and Tamil ( Irumbukkai Mayavi). Of all the characters, Steel Claw became my favorite comics hero, because unlike others this guy becomes invisible, except for his iron hand, when he comes in contact with electricity. Devoured various comics (thanks to my father’s colleague who had a good collection), got introduced to colorful pages of Phantom, Magician The Mandrake, Rip Kirby, The Steel Claw. My reading started with comics and periodicals (Vikatan, Kumudham, Ambuli Mama). Initial years were similar to any other kid growing up in remote villages. I would love to say I was born with a book in right hand and a DVD in left hand, but that was not the case.
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