Even as space is in the flavour of the season, I get reminded of this book in my shelf which I picked up some time in 1986 or 87 as an 11/12 year old. A cold war relic, I picked it up from an annual exhibition of Soviet publications.
Those were the days (and still) when my hunger and interest in knowledge extended beyond the classroom and if anything the classroom was to only go and do severe damage to me.
Rishi 