Learning, learning everywhere
"Mummy, Please mummy....I have to go mummy" Appu pleaded his mother. His voice choked and he was about to cry. "Mummy, please..." "No Appu, I wont let to go alone. His house is far away. See...There is no one on the streets. No. I wont allow you. Go and read the Encyclopedia. Its full of knowledge." My wife denied his request strongly. I was just observing the conversation that was taking place between a desperate child and a strict sincere mother. 'Whether the encyclopedia has everything that a 10 year old boy needs?' I wondered. I followed my thoughts, which ran back without my effort to my childhood days. I was monkey-pedaling a hired bicycle. "Hey Rengudu, climb on the cross-bar and pedal, so that we shall reach the base station of Pachchai malai within two hours" my school friend Venkat, who is an year elder than me encouraged to climb on the crossbar of 22 inches Ralli's bicyle. I was eleven years old then. "No. Venkat, I c...