“If you love to cook and read, you’d never be hungry and alone in life. And that’s one of the greatest quotes of my lifetime,” Dr Kurush F Dalal quotes his mother to put in a nutshell his ever growing relationship with books across subjects.

An archaeologist and culinary anthropologist by profession, Kurush’s reading interests, as one may presume, is not restricted to books on old excavations and food. From Enid Blyton’s adventure series, science fiction and Mills & Boon’s romantic fictions to his current reads, ‘Lords of the Deccan’ by Anirudh Kanisetti and ‘The First World War Adventures Of Nariman Karkaria: A Memoir’ by Murali Ranganathan and Nariman Karkaria, his spectrum of interests cover diverse genres of books.