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Earliest connection with reading spaces as inspired by Naniji

Sometimes the most important moment in life could be when you first receive a surprise visit from silence. Once upon a time, Naniji said, “I used to take my books in the toilet and study there”. I remember my surprise. For an old silver Alto car, packed with 6 people, such secrets were secrets. I remember our silence. It was like for some moments we had all stopped moving. My Nani smiled, continued looking straight at the person holding the steering wheel (checking that we were going right, she was giving us the directions) and said “Otherwise, everyone had work for us. Ye karde, voh kar de (Do this, do that). No one ever got to know that I used to do it. Pitaji would have been so angry. Uss time ke log kaise in sab chhezo ko lete the , you don’t know (People in those days, how they would have taken it, you don’t know). But for me it was clear, books can be studied anywhere.” I remember looking up at her. Naniji is known in the family for having a very good memory. One sto