Author and philanthropist Sudha Murthy has exhorted students to adopt ‘simple living and high thinking’ while adhering to a minimalistic way of life.
Speaking at a ‘Meet the Author’ programme hosted by TocH Public School here and DC Books, she credited her mother with encouraging her to read and write. Parents must take to reading, and children will follow suit, she said.
She advised parents not to think of their children as an extension of their dreams. “Children have their own dreams. Every person must be permitted to run his marathon,” she said at the event which saw the release of “Oru Mantrika Kudukka”, the Malayalam version of her short-story compilation Grandma’s Bag of Stories.
