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I love my food. And I love information.
我熱愛食品，我也熱愛信息。
My children usually tell me that one of those passions is a little more apparent than the other.
我的孩子們常常對我說我看起來顯然更像個(gè)吃貨。
But what I want to do in the next eight minutes or so is to take you through how those passions developed,
不過在接下來的八分鐘里我會(huì)向大家介紹這兩個(gè)愛好是如何發(fā)展的，
the point in my life when the two passions merged, the journey of learning that took place from that point.
它們合二為一的時(shí)刻，以及此后我的學(xué)習(xí)旅程。
And one idea I want to leave you with today is what would would happen differently in your life if you saw information the way you saw food?
今天我想把下面這個(gè)問題留給你們：如果像看待食物那樣看待信息你的生活會(huì)有什么樣的改變？
I was born in Calcutta -- a family where my father and his father before him were journalists,
我出生在加爾各答（印度城市）我的父親和祖父都是記者，
and they wrote magazines in the English language. That was the family business.
他們用英語為雜志寫文章。這就是我家的家族產(chǎn)業(yè)。
And as a result of that, I grew up with books everywhere around the house. And I mean books everywhere around the house.
因此，我小時(shí)候家里全是書。真的是堆滿了，就像這樣。
And that's actually a shop in Calcutta, but it's a place where we like our books.
這其實(shí)是加爾各答的一家商店，不過光顧那里的都是愛書人。
In fact, I've got 38,000 of them now and no Kindle in sight.
事實(shí)上，我現(xiàn)在一共有三萬八千本書而且沒有Kindle（亞馬遜出品的電子書）。
But growing up as a child with the books around everywhere, with people to talk to about those books,
我成長的時(shí)候身邊全是書和喜歡討論書的人，
this wasn't a sort of slightly learned thing. By the time I was 18, I had a deep passion for books.
這對我的影響很大。我十八歲的時(shí)候就對書籍有著深深的依戀。
It wasn't the only passion I had. I was a South Indian brought up in Bengal.
讀書不是我唯一的愛好。我來自印度南部在孟加拉長大。
