WHEN a senior IT professional found himself behind bars in Noida jail for two years, he was in abject despair. It was books that gave him solace, he says, during that dark phase of his life. “I was appointed caretaker of the prison’s library. Prisoners would approach me for book recommendations. I singled out books based on their interests, mostly motivational literature,” he recalls.
A voracious reader of spiritual books, he used his time in jail to read the Ramcharitmanas. He also read the novels of Munshi Premchand and Bhagwati Charan Verma and drama. . .