While studying in the school, we sisters used to look forward to our maternal uncle buying us new books from Sri Rama Book Depot in Hyderabad.
They always arrived in bundles of note books of all kinds - the square book for maths, the double ruled for handwriting, the single ruled for notes, the one side blank page for science notes where diagrams were drawn on the blank adjacent sheet, then graph books. Text books in English, Hindi, Telugu whatever were prescribed for the various classes in which we sisters were studying.
Note books would be distributed out of the bundle to each according to the numbers recommended by the school for each class. Smaller brown sheets would be cut from larger sheets and labels given. We will set ourselves with the task of covering and labelling all our books. The text books too would get new covers. This was a process and team work. We had such fun doing all this together.
The best handwriting would adorn the labels. It would have the name, class, section and subject written.
I would open each and every book and read what I could. My favourite would always be the English Text Book and the Moral Science Book. I would finish reading all the stories in them in no time and go on to read my elder sisters' text books as well, out of curiosity and interest.
The peculiar scent from turning of those new pages would be so nice, that I would keep turning them until they lost their newness. They were like the first drops of rain hitting earth to produce a wonderful moist smell.
What beautiful days were those.
Mahalakshmi
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