Dehradun, April 28 -- A book release gets underway. courtesy Dr Prabhanjan Shakunt

Images of budding authors of all shapes and sizes can be splashed across social media, and multiple platform releases are the norm these days.

I just wanted to remind you of my first book release in 1992. Mussoorie & Landour: Days of Wine & Roses was a chatty history of our hill station, published fifty-eight years after Charles Wilson, writing under the pseudonym of The Rambler, gave us A Mussoorie Miscellany in 1936.

'Take you to Bombay, make you a heroine!' teased my publisher as we set out. It is an old expression used by roadside Romeo's in mofussil towns.

It is no secret that I never made it to Bollywood. 'I wish I could tell him I am still waitin...