Half Pants Full Pants: Real-life tales from Shimoga

From playing a rare instrument to asking Rajiv Gandhi intimate questions to practising dolphin dives to hanging out of a running train in the middle of the night to witnessing a world record to being caught in a flood of sambar to learning kung fu with mosquitoes to becoming the inventor of capris to seeing Rama and Arjuna together in the forest to being misled about the Wodeyars to making magnets to eating blades to robbing libraries to planning a borewell..

Well, this book is simply putdownable. After every chapter, you'll be compelled to put it down and pick up your own childhood again.