Laughter therapy

Amar Lulla reads because reading makes him happy.

A collection of books that spans over 40 years now happily runs through the hands of Cipla's joint managing director, Amar Lulla's, children.

Fortunately, Lulla's collection is not biased towards management tomes. Instead, it is P G Wodehouse's inevitable humour that occupies maximum space in his library.

Like for most others, it is the "sheer joy of wit and humour" that attracts Lulla to Wodehouse's writings... and is a clear indication of what books mean to him, "I mostly enjoy reading fiction and humour, essentially to relax. Reading is more like a passion that helps me de-stress," explains Lulla. 
 

Books and the man-XXII
A weekly series on books and authors people read
Favourite author	P G Wodehouse
Best-ever read	The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Most influenced by	The Geeta
Favourite childhood book	The Perry Mason series by Erle Stanley Gardner
Favourite comic book hero	Superman

And that is exactly why he prefers to abstain from management oriented books that essentially take him back to work... just what he wants to get away from when reading.

Not one to judge a book by it's cover, quite literally, Lulla gets inspired to buy one if it sparks off a unique thought, offers a different perspective or simply boasts of a completely distinct style of communication.

And that is probably why among the Indian authors, it is Khushwant Singh who bags first place in his library, "I love the honesty in story telling that is present in his works," he says. Lulla likes to describe himself as a "voracious reader who can read simply for the joy of reading", and that means absorbing every book "" cover-to-cover.