World Book Day-2011

Trichy, 22, April: The world Book Day would be marked at the South Zone of Continuing Education, Trichy Kalaiarangam campus on April 23, 2011. The event would be held under the auspices of SYSTEM Centre. According to the chairperson of the South Zone of Continuing Education, Dr.K.Govindaraju, the UNESCO has designated the World Book Day. It is also the date of birth of the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. He said T.Soundiah, IAS would deliver the key note address. Several people love reading books. Fiction, non-fiction, technical, any will do. It is true that books are our best friends. We laugh with them, learn from them; sometimes even shed a tear with them. The best thing about books is that we can learn from the author's experience. What takes a person decade to learn has been put in an understandable way into books. It is thanks to such wonderful gifts of learning that we can enrich and improve our lives. There Picking out the good books is an important task and only true book lovers master that skill. We need to read lots and lots of good books. The books are our friends because they teach us a lot of things. They teach us about the way of the world and help us to expand our vocabulary. They give us wisdom about various things in this world; proper books at the proper age are really our best friends to spend time with. And such books can range from religion and philosophy to all other headings. Reading a book is just like talking with a silent person. Books make our character and make the society on being silent. Book help us to increase our imagination and make us aware that there are a lot things have to be done ultimately give us our goal for what we are born. When we were young, our teacher and parents used to tell us that we should always be friends with our book because a book is the only thing or relation on this earth which will always give and will never ask for something, as usually there is give and take philosophy. Books always give knowledge and after reading so many books we have reached at this stage of life. People read books which are various kinds like people read text books because that is the requirement of their course. People read novels out of their interest. So, books are our best friends, always there for us. Books have been used as the major means of storing information for centuries now and, although nowadays they gradually give way to digital data carriers, they still remain our best friends for the reason that they may be outdated as physical objects, but not as a concept. After all, they haven’t been printed on paper for the entirety of their existence; in the past they knew other, quite different forms: they were hand-written on parchment, kept in papyrus scrolls, chiseled on stone tablets. The alteration they are undergoing now is just more drastic than any of the ones that had been in the past.What makes a human a human? Language, knowledge, information. No other being known to us can store any kind of knowledge outside its own brain – so, books are not only our best friends, they are one of the best proofs of our existence. They let every single human know everything that has been known by other people, those who have lived long ago and now are dead, those whose very names we know no longer. They unite the humanity into another form of being, universal and eternal. And also “to read a book” may now have meanings completely different from what may appear in our conscience, it is still reading a book. One reads a book on the screen of a computer, or a laptop, or a portable reading device, – but it is still a book and it is still read. So, to my mind, books remain to be our greatest friends and assets in perceiving this world, just as they have been before.Govin