But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.

In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.

Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power.

I wanted to live among books.

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.

But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.