Why the title

As it is, the title seems to portray exactly what I have been doing all over these years, having an interest in almost everything around me at least (if not everything under the sun). I never wanted to become an architect from my early childhood-in fact I did not then know that such a specie exists. So I did what every child does-have fun with the world that you inherit without asking and try your hand at everything that comes your way. So the first major English novel I read was the translation in English of Dostovsky's 'Crime & Punishment'. It was not an easygoing task, but I was told that this was a Classic, and that I must be able to say later that I read it all.

I remember borrowing a biggish Dictionary which I kept referring throughout-it took me three months to complete the book. But my mentor (the fellow who lived next door-I do not even remember his name now but he also was a 'Kulkarni', and of the same clan) was happy, and wished me to continue on other Russian Novelists-but my Matriculation exams were coming nearer and I could not continue then-and it was much later when I was almost 15 years older, as a practicing architect in Aurangabad that I took up the Russian thread again, this time with a very different interest-but that is another story.