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Me and Literature Parm HothiAlthough I have been reading books from a very early age, the first book I really liked was a kid's story book that was printed in India. We lived in a small town near Los Angles called "Riverside". Since we had no South Asian grocery store or even a little shop in the town, my dad would especially ask my uncle in Vancouver to send us Indian books because he liked reading. This one time with some of my dads novels came a wonderful little color filled book with strange pictures within . My dad handed it to me said "don't lose it" (not his exact I went to an elementary school called Cameno Real element
My interest coincided with a creative explosion, which is what I find to be the holy grail of reading. ary and I was the only Indian in the entire school. The book was about a boy who couldn't go to school because he had to go work in the fields with his dad. Since I started watching a lot of Indian movie it has become easier for me to make sense of the allusions in the novels. Even though the story was too complex for me at that age, the illustrations in the book were the ones that attracted me. Later I realized that the books was to teach us not to take the privileges we have for granted. All these years, I have always found an escape in books and a way to express myself through writing. I had other books but I didn't find the warmth and friendliness in those books that I found in this particular one. I believe because of my dads efforts I have started a serious interest in India generally and modern Indian novels specifically. Everyday I would come home and read that same book. I use to imagine my self in the field and all the kids in the pictures that looked like me was an astounding thought. What they all have in common is that they have captured my mind and allowed me to never forget what feelings they evoked in my own heart, and that I feel it is important for others to see them as well. I have read several modern Indian fiction first editions. None of the kids even understood who I was so they just assumed that I was a weird Mexican.
Common topics in this essay:
Mexican Everyday,
South Asian,
Parm Hothi,
Cameno Real,
Los Angles,
modern indian,
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