How I Became an Avid Reader
My history with books is a long and colourful one
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6 min readSep 11, 2020
My very first memories are of my father seating my younger brother and me on his lap and reading out Tintin comics to us. My first language is Assamese. English was a legacy of India’s colonialism, and I barely understood it. My father, however, didn’t let that be a barrier.