It is a terrible loss that many youngsters and children nowadays do not enjoy the pleasure of reading, Shashi Tharoor, Congress MP, has said.
He was delivering a lecture in memory of N.E. Balakrishna Marar, founder of Kozhikode-based Poorna Publications and Touring Book Stall or TBS, here on Saturday, at a two-day literature festival organised by the group.
“Not a day goes by these days without me being asked, mostly by young children, egged on by enthusiastic parents, what they must do to develop a formidable vocabulary. My answer is inevitably just a single word: read,” Mr. Tharoor said.
