Mumtaz does not like reading. Books fill her room; fairy tales, biographies and adventure stories. She used to love sitting with the colourful board-books as an infant, but now at 10, she does not have the patience. She can manage basic stories, but reading leaves her tired and irritable. She loves stories though, dramas with lots of tears and laughter; she loves watching movies and serials, always fascinated by the interplay of emotions and how people work within relationships. But even the lure of a well-written story cannot coax her into reading. She does not do storytelling either. When recounting a story, there would be a lot of details, a lot of inconsequential chatter, but the story itself would not make any sense. The beginning, middle and end would be all jumbled up. You could see all the emotions playing out in her narration; the excitement, the animation, she certainly is a dramatist, but the story would be lost in the telling. Then there are the funny words Hopsital (for ho...