While I was growing up in the 90s in the same state in India as the author of the article, English translations Soviet science and math books were super cheap (

While I was growing up in the 90s in the same state in India as the author of the article, English translations Soviet science and math books were super cheap (I suspect they were heavily subsidized) and have had a profound impact on me. My mum used to read a lot of the English translations of literary works, but I had no interest in them until I was much older.