 I think that was one of the first books probably when I was in 3rd, 4th standard which freaked me out. I mean he exaggerated everything, there's no such octopus in the world, he imagined such a big octopus which would come and pull down his whole, you know, like an ocean liner and all that kind of stuff. I think I was in my 3rd or 4th standard when it so freaked my imagination. This octopus and me wanting to go to the sea and want to see these octopuses and whatever else all those other things that go with it, I think for almost six months, eight months these octopuses crawled through my brains. That's one book that really grabbed my imagination. The next big book that grabbed my imagination was Gulliver's Travels. I wanted to go to those islands and meet those little people and kick them around a little bit and just the idea because when you're 7, 8, you're a bloody lily put in the world. Everybody is taller than you and everybody thinks he's adult and everybody, because I could think like them, I could feel like them but they always thought you're a lily put. So I wanted to go to that island and meet these really little ones and kick them around a little bit as they were doing or else were doing to me. So Gulliver's Travels really did that and okay, the other big one, all these going to the sea books somehow fascinated me. Robinson Crusoe just freaked me out. I really wanted to go away when we were in 9th standard, me and my friends planned we'll build a craft and we'll go off to Tahiti. We wanted to just go away at 3, 4 of us, we want to build a boat and sail away to Tahiti. We study the ocean currents, how to go, which season to take off to the ocean, works. There's another movie, I don't know, one captain. There used to be a lot of English movies at that time where kids run off to the ocean, you know, as a, what do you call them, stowaways. As a stowaway, you go away in a ship, all these stories caught my imagination so much, always we were chanting, if you run, you must run to the sea, you must run to the sea. We never ran, unfortunately. We almost ran but we didn't run. Robinson Crusoe and later on it still fascinated me that island getting lost thing was, what is this, Ibsen's Crichton, what is it, admirable Crichton. So here a whole English family in the Victorian age, they go on a ship and they crash and they get lost on an island. So suddenly the whole life gets reversed. These English dandies can't survive on an island, they don't know anything, how to do anything, they can't, they don't know how to strike a matchbox. So slowly this Crichton is a cook, slowly cook gradually becomes the leader and this, this aristocrat becomes a buffoon on the island. This Crichton marries one of the daughters because yeah, because they are there for many years. The whole society gets reversed, the lowest becomes the highest and the highest becomes the lowest because the conditions have changed from England and after some eight or ten years, one day a ship comes and they don't know what to do because now the cook has become the boss suddenly if the ship comes everything will get reversed again. But Crichton says this is a natural order of society, there that was the order, here this is the order. So they go back to England, once again that's the order. So he sets up a smoke signal, ship comes and picks them up and then they come back to England and once again Crichton becomes a cook. And suddenly the dandy feels so uncomfortable because all these days he was a buffoon who is good for nothing and suddenly he is the boss now and how will all invent stories, how they survived on the island and how they did wonderful things and Crichton won't say one word for everything he says, yes sir, he again becomes a butler in their family. So that's admirable Crichton. In high school one book I read was the Jonathan Livingstone Siegel, have you read that Richard Buck? In about a month I read about twenty-three times this book, it really freaked me. I read allusions also many times, Khalil Gibran's what Prophet really struck a card in me, more than that Mikhail Hemis, the book of Mirdad, oh that was wonderful. These are all I read them when I was, you know somewhere between twenty to twenty-four which all piled up in me in a big way, one on top of the other. Mabitik really freaked me that that's a book that still rules my mind one way or the other. That's about a whale, again sea, you know why? And Tolstoy was really it affected me quite a lot. Dostowski and Tolstoy that made a big, big impact on me. Yeah, yeah, I read almost all the books of Tolstoy. So they were all Russian books and available at two rupees, three rupees. I bought up a whole library of Russian books and read them up. What books transcend everything? They don't transcend, it is just that if the author is very insightful, to live life as everybody lives it would take a thousand years for you. But in those two days when you read a five hundred page book which goes into somebody's life intricately, you actually live through that without actually having to go through all that.