Sheila Dikshit was quite fond of Western music since her youth and would sit near the radio waiting for her favourite songs to be aired.
She also developed a fascination for footwear and had a good collection.
Apart from these, reading was a big passion. She also loved watching movies and her first film in theatres was "Hamlet" in black-and-white.
Dikshit had mentioned about these in her autobiography "Citizen Delhi: My Times, My Life" published last year.
"There was no television, and radio was accessible only during certain hours of the day. Life revolved around studying for school and pastimes like reading books, watching the occasional film, and listening to music," she wrote.
"Father was a member of the Gymkhana Club (of Delhi) and during my teenage years when we lived within walking distance of it, on Dupleix Lane, we would get a fresh lot of six books every weekend to last us until the next weekend. I devoured Enid Blyton's 'Famous Five' stories, Richmal Crompton's 'Just William' series and classics like Alexandre Dumas's 'The Three Musketeers' and Victor Hugo's 'Les Miserables'," she wrote.
Her favourite books were Lewis Caroll's "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass, What Alice Found There" and the Sherlock Holmes series.
