‘Reading widens your horizon and makes you more empathetic’

Rachana Thapa, a hospitality educator and an entrepreneur, speaks about her relationship with books and how reading has shaped her as a person.

As a girl, Rachana Thapa , who is now the director of Silver Mountain School of Hotel Management, was an introvert and didn’t have many friends. It didn’t help that her elder brother, her only sibling, was away at boarding school most of the year. So as a young girl, Thapa spent most of her time in the school library, getting lost in the world of books. She takes great pride in the fact that her two daughters have inherited her love for reading.