Anuradha Khaitan Gupta & Merry Readings
Books have always held a special place in Anuradha’s life. She recalls how as a pre-teen in 2002, holding a rented Harry Potter book in hand for the first time, she entered the wonderful world that would otherwise have been beyond her reach. Although she had a library in school, it didn't hold titles that interested her, namely fantasy. Anuradha had a hard time making friends; for the longest time she believed there was something about her face which made people feel unwelcome. With time, she stopped reading. Partly because she didn't have money to buy books and also because she didn't have the time. Pursuing graduation, a job, and then marriage left little or no time for reading. With her husband, Anuradha realized she had found her soul mate; one who reignited her love affair with books. She started reading voraciously, kept track of what she was reading, and started blogging in 2017. To begin with Anuradha did a lot of professio...