It's been quite some time since I wrote you a letter. Until tonight, I blamed it on my being swamped with work. But just now, I found out the real reason why I wasn't writing my long elaborate balcony letters. No, it's not to do with you. It's to do with my reading. For the past one month, I haven't gotten the chance to read anything long form. Only today, I sat down and went through the imaginative long letters hundreds of writers wrote to me, personally. Every letter had its heart and mind in the right place. Some had more heart, some had more mind. I reached out to those with more heart and a good grasp of the language. Good reading instigates good writing. Precisely the reason why we want a full-time letter writer for s/he will provide the quintessential daily dose of good reading.

Which reminds me: you left your book with me. Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everything in the Last 13000 Years. A treat for the mind. I am afraid to read it. Will it make it difficult for me to forget the past 4 months? History has never been kind to me. Especially with you.

- हर्ष स्नेहांशु