When the book Gandhi enna Pathasala (Gandhi the school) releases on Thursday, it will be the culmination of a three-year-long effort made by a school to familiarise today’s generation with the ideas and ideology of the father of the nation.
The book being released by poet and orator P.N. Gopikrishnan at Government Vocational Higher Secondary School, Meppayur, Kozhikode, is an anthology of orations by several eminent people on various aspects of Gandhi, made as part of a 106-day-long ‘Gandhi reading’ organised at the school in 2021. All the students of the school read The Story of My Experiments with Truth, the autobiography of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, from National Reading Day on June 19 to October 2, the birth anniversary of Gandhi, in 2021. The programme titled ‘Oru Pusthakathinte Manthrika Swaadheenam’ organised by the Vidyarangam Kalasahitya Vedi of the school and the Kolaya Vayanavedi also comprised orations by eminent personalities that have been put together in the book.
