CULTURAL GAP

Reading! The word seems very simple, yet the complexities involved in it tells the pathetic tale of today’s generation.

A recent analysis by a group of educators concluded that reading should be a fun activity and not something that is forced. However, at times when the mind delves deep into slumber, enforcing things do yield results. Today is the age of fast information that is available at the click of the mouse. But are we leaving our children to surrender to a culture that does not need any imaginative power of young minds. Or such is the parental apathy that we are allowing them to surrender to technology and not culture? How many homes in our country really have the culture of motivating children to read something that creates interest or for that matter fun? Just a few! Just beating drums will not help. We all have to join hands in this endeavour to take our children to a new age of knowledge--an age of wisdom, intellect, and the most important--ability to judge between right and the wrong. Humble beginning should be from the homefront where elders can set example for the kids to imitate and imbibe. Let us shun the easy routes and adopt the difficult path to mould the children into thinking citizens of the country. Reading books not only increases the vocabulary but also stimulates the mind to form opinion on varied issues. The soothing feeling of touch, passion, and stirring emotions that flow while reading is unimaginable. Nothing can substitute reading, no matter to which age we belong. And if this simple word is understood by the children, we will produce leaders and not followers!