Peepal Baba
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
There was nothing, you know, I want to be this.
I want to have to do that.
I was very happy reading books.
I read a lot.
At a very, very young age, I read books on anthropology, on sociology.
I read on psychology, political history, social history.
History was my favorite subject.
I read on literature.
I read poets.
I wrote a lot of prose fiction.
I wrote a lot of prose from good essays and William Blake and a lot.
There was a lot of reading in my life, I think.
Lot of books.
And probably that blunted my competitive spirit, that blunted my... Because I felt that life is so beautiful.
Like, why do you have to spoil it by getting ahead of anybody?
Because somehow, I don't know when it happened.
I actually used to romanticize about being a good backbencher.
Me too.
So I thought when you are a backbencher, nobody expects anything from you.
First, the expectations go up.