The 'Vaayana Dinam' has reached us. It will be celebrated all over Kerala, as usual, but this year it takes a Pan India coverage with every state celebrating it, for a month, with the importance that it rightly deserves - the promotion of reading will get the right fillip as I'd like to believe! Digital reading is also being popularised taking into account the ongoing trends.
Digital reading, to quite a few of us, has become a favourite and don't get me wrong, when I say that there are many among us who feel that one is up to date with things through What'sApp messages and the 'brevity' attracts them as knowledge being available in a nutshell, so to say. And herein lies the biggest danger - knowledge on any subject can only be meaningful and complete if the information is tapped from many sources and cross referenced.
So, then, what makes digital literacy important? Apart from the fact that it is state of the art, the following points are worth remembering:-
(a) Digital information is for life without fearing about the effects of weather, white ants and
other external factors that affect books and periodicals.
(b) The volume of information available on one's finger tips is massive but the stowage is not
cumbersome at all.
(c) Retrieval of data is swift and the search for information can have a worldwide cover.
On the 20th there shall be two functions, the one at the Thalavoor UPS where books worth Rs.5 grand will be handed over to the school library, from the endowment on my dad's name, at 1030 hrs. At 1430 hrs, books for a similar amount will be handed over to the Kura GLPS, from an endowment on my mom's name. Dad had studied in that school, at Thalavoor, when he was a kid while mom's post office was next to the school and she used to keenly follow its activities and offer her support from time to time!
My cousin, Nonu's son's thread ceremony is scheduled during the forenoon of the 22nd while it will also coincide with our school's Old Boys' day. Both the events have to be juggled carefully to help Lekha and me to spend time without antagonising any body.
Tailpiece.
It's gonna be a long day tomorrow. Hope the traffic is manageable and the weather is nice without too much of rain. I'm also looking forward to being at Sathi's dad's fifth day ceremony on the 18th.
Digital reading, to quite a few of us, has become a favourite and don't get me wrong, when I say that there are many among us who feel that one is up to date with things through What'sApp messages and the 'brevity' attracts them as knowledge being available in a nutshell, so to say. And herein lies the biggest danger - knowledge on any subject can only be meaningful and complete if the information is tapped from many sources and cross referenced.
So, then, what makes digital literacy important? Apart from the fact that it is state of the art, the following points are worth remembering:-
(a) Digital information is for life without fearing about the effects of weather, white ants and
other external factors that affect books and periodicals.
(b) The volume of information available on one's finger tips is massive but the stowage is not
cumbersome at all.
(c) Retrieval of data is swift and the search for information can have a worldwide cover.
On the 20th there shall be two functions, the one at the Thalavoor UPS where books worth Rs.5 grand will be handed over to the school library, from the endowment on my dad's name, at 1030 hrs. At 1430 hrs, books for a similar amount will be handed over to the Kura GLPS, from an endowment on my mom's name. Dad had studied in that school, at Thalavoor, when he was a kid while mom's post office was next to the school and she used to keenly follow its activities and offer her support from time to time!
My cousin, Nonu's son's thread ceremony is scheduled during the forenoon of the 22nd while it will also coincide with our school's Old Boys' day. Both the events have to be juggled carefully to help Lekha and me to spend time without antagonising any body.
Tailpiece.
It's gonna be a long day tomorrow. Hope the traffic is manageable and the weather is nice without too much of rain. I'm also looking forward to being at Sathi's dad's fifth day ceremony on the 18th.
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