Memories and notes of 'Rosshalde'
Most of my books contain additional bits of paper, possible symbolism of the need to identify myself with the story , the unsolved enquiry or the memories of the time. This book also contained an aniversary card and was gifted to me by my wife Yogita, in the year 2000. Those were the years of training for me in a department where I was loosing hope due to the unrealistic expectations with which I had joined. It was also the year of the anticipated digital crisis with passed of without any of it as did I complete my tenure as a Neurosurgery registrar. This this book may stand as valid witness to the time and as for the book it was rescued from the burden of piles books on the street of Mumbai. It used to be then a very common habit of my wife to walk of the street heaped with books and ask if there was one by Hermann Hesse. She seldom read this author but felt deeply satisfied on bringing me one from the rejected heap. As for me, I always loved seconds book over the new one's. They...