Today , unfortunately though it is , everyone likes to have professional education. Learning for earning has become the craze of the day. A young man hardly having budding moustache is recruited in campass interview and prized for 5lakhs per annum. Doctor , engineer, Software professionals- yes , very few are pursuing general line of education. The simple reason is hard cash .

Golden lines of profession are the goals of education. The more money one spends , the more money he will earn. Money begets money. You take care of penny , penny will take care of pound.

Then there is the lure of US jobs. For a young man, US is now the paradise, the land of dollars. The question of brain drain is now poo-poohed. Brain drain ,it is argued, is better than brain in the drains. Thus there is the gold rush and the frontier for an Indian is US cities - from New York to Manhattan, from Washington to Nebraska, from Pittsburgh to Arizona.....

Values are old , new values are costly. Humanity is no longer counted indispensable. Stability of life comes from the fattened purse.

What will one read this day for mental peace? At best , Del Carnegie. He tells the story of success.

Is this not terrible?

Success is the pillar of failure, a fragile pillar. But nobody has time to look: 'What's this life full of care,There's no time to stand and stare.'

Things are in sorry state of affairs. Reading for the sake of reading is a thing of the bygone times. We have become the followers of Bacon: Some books are to be tasted,others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Which books are to be chewed and digested? Yes, that's the million dollar question. The answer is simple: Books which bring dollars for us.