fifth avenue

Dear readers, When I was in school in Jamshedpur, students were forbidden from opening the glass cupboards full of books. Instead, we were called, roll-number wise, to pick a book, from an “age-appropriate selection” of four books laid out for us, on the librarian’s table. So when my parents moved to New York, I gaped incredulously at the United States (US) library system. If ever there was heaven on earth, the Mid-Manhattan public libraries are it! Bryant Park Reading Room.  If you are visiting New York in the…