Kitaabi

Reading books is one of my most favourite hobbies. Earlier I used to read books and emulate them, now as I became aware of the political reality of this country and the world, I read them to understand perspectives. My interest in mental health pushed me towards the study of psychology and while I became somewhat competent in therapeutic psychology I realised that there are various other types of psychology including exploitation and dark psychology which the deep state of this nation applies on people and with impunity just that it appears as one's own fault or fate. The first realisation for me was that all art is political including literature and the second realisation was that all life is political, the third realisation was that religion was political, however I ended up realising that faith and especially personal faith is not political unless you decide it to be. Reading helps with improving knowledge and it also helps in gaining new perspectives in mental health issues and reading, both fiction and non-fiction, helps, as I have seen, in auto-immune disorders. I have kind of a huge library both of professional books and of books of personal interest which include both fiction and non-fiction. I have in my experience realised that writers for the most part are one of the most trustworthy of professionals, though I would like to discount propagandists, journalists and Indian writers from this statement. Life is a lot about the metaphysical model of your mind and consciousness, it's similar to how a village person sees a direct connection between the food eaten and it's excretion, like there is a direct pipe, and a doctor who knows the complex organs and processes the food eaten passes through. Anyone who has been aware in the past decade knows that the collective IQ of this nation has deteriorated in the past decade. I have always maintained that I don't think that it is because of BJP but I know that it is also BJP. I ended up realising that behind the two party or multi-party system in this country there is a multi-level feudal-corporate-mafia setup riddled with patronage and criminal networks that hide behind welfare and religion that is permanent and in the past decade due to my personal and political experiences I realised that this country is actually a regionally and culturally divided kleptocratic oligarchy posing as a democracy. Good books are hard to come by in this country and at most you'd get cheap or campy romances or poverty porn written by quite privileged individuals, good adventure or sci-fi novels don't really seem possible due to invasive political reality and the political climate and hence one has to depend on foreign authors in which again there is socioeconomic class based invasive gatekeeping. I personally like J.K. Rowling and Stephen King in modern western authors and I appreciate Neil Gaiman's writing style though I don't like his stories for the most part. I prefer European and American literature written in the 19th century and early 20th century because I personally think, and that's my personal opinion, that it is the most authentic literature and same goes for literature written in early to mid 20th century if Indian literature is concerned. Anything after that requires a discerning eye to separate it from propaganda. Reading at least two books a month is a doable goal and I try that I am able to do it.