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The National Library Week was celebrated with talks by noted academicians
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Children should be guided to spend more time reading and writing.
Commemorating the 40th National Library Week, which started on November 14, the management of Visakhapatnam Public Library organised talks on alternate evenings in its Seminar Hall. The first was a session of talks on Back to Books with the president of the Library Soceity, D.V. Subbarao in the chair. Retd. Professor in English, AU, K. Lakshmidevi and Director of Centre for Policy Studies Prof. A. Prasannakumar spoke.
Pointing out the most unfortunate situation of allotment of one period (45minutes) for library study a week in our schools, Lakshmidevi said that it's time we find ways and means to get our children inculcated with the habit of reading books from the school level itself by way of assigning marks for assignments given on study in the library as it is done in most of the advanced countries, the United States, the U.K. and the like.
Prof. Prasannakumar expressing his anguish for not having any means of making the children aware as to how and why the Panditji stood hailed a paragon of not only of love for reading books and hence a store house of knowledge but also a creative writer with humanly poetic touch.
He further elucidated why not only we in India but the entire mankind owe in great measure to him who was a moody idealist intellectual who experienced mystical empathy with the toiling masses.
A.R.S.
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