Of curd rice and 'comfort' writers

Comfort writers are like comfort food and comfort music

Once upon a time Delhi used to have very well-stocked public libraries. The best of them was the Central Secretariat Library. 

But these libraries declined as the years went by. From the 1970s onwards one had to fend for oneself, mostly from bookshops. 

One consequence of this was the reduction in the number of writers one was able to read because in those days, books cost quite a lot even in those now long-gone pavement shops, and each new writer was a gamble. I tried many writers only to find they had not been worth the money. 

Kindle and Google between them have