Went to Athens and returned in an hour….

Today, I travelled to Athens, marvelled its astounding ruins, appreciated its splendour, its exquisite city squares and returned back to Delhi, that too in just one hour. You think either I’m kidding or have gone nuts because what I’m saying is impossible. But I say it is possible and only books can make it possible. I’ve travelled to Athens through Sophie’s World, New York City through Nora Roberts, France and England through The Da Vinci Code, Michigan through Shadow Play, seventeenth century Europe through Wuthering Heights, British India through Godan, Hogwards through Harry Potter and many such beautiful cities which I cannot see otherwise in my short life span. Books make it possible for you to travel across time, in space, thousands of kilometres away in foreign lands while sitting in your living room or your bedroom or for that matter any place under the sun. ‘Books are for travelling without moving an inch’ (The Namesake). So I’ll be travelling many more cities and meeting many more fascinating people through my books. The journey continues…