World Book and Copyright Day - Subhash Ghai reveals his favourite books
A frequent visitor to bookstores, Subhash Ghai believes all biographies are lies. He shares he will therefore write a fiction based on non-fiction 'a perspective - that's life', if time permits. He is currently reading The Difficulty of Being Good by Gurucharan Das. He finds Sadhguru's Death amazing and eagerly recommends it.
Tell us about your favourite books and authors.
My most favourite author is Osho and his book, India My Love.
Book-to-movie adaptation you loved and why?
Steven Spielberg's Schindlers List. It moved deeply.
A movie you wish was originally written as a book?
Iqbal.
What is your favourite genre?
Fiction enhances my imagination for cinema and non-fiction amplifies my understanding of life and happiness.
If your life was a book, what would it be called?
Karma's Child.
A quote that comes to your mind when you hear the word book?
'A reader who is interested in someone else's narrative - a perspective of other's story'.
Has becoming a reader changed you as a person?
Yes it has. It helps you understand the psychology of characters, people and philosophy of li...
Do you have any favourite reading spots?
My sweet home. However, I enjoy spending time in bookshops looking at various titles and their content. Mostly, I visit Mumbai's Crossword Bookstore and Granth Bookstore. I love the smell of bookstores. But I am yet to visit e-books with such fondness.
Source : Freepressjournal.in
Added on : 23th April, 2022