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Source: The Hindu (http://www.hinduonnet.com/2008/05/26/stories/2008052650250200.htm)
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Promote book-reading, says author
Correspondent
KORAPUT: What do teachers and parents do to keep children engaged now-a-days? They give them toys to play or switch on the idiot box or play some cartoon CDs. “Few make an attempt to help the child explore the fascinating world of books,” says Chakrapani Parichha.
Author of over one hundred detective novels and a renowned playwright (he has 50 radio plays to his credit), Mr. Parichha says libraries in schools play a positive role in giving shape to children’s dreams.
Now a school teacher in Boipariguda in the district, Mr. Parichha, recalling his childhood days in the lesser-known school in the same village, says that the small library in the institution has been instrumental in widening his horizon.
“The teachers made available a good number of titles on the life of great personalities, novels, storybooks and even literary magazines,” he says.
“I have read many books before penning the first detective storybook Gotiye Mrutyura Sandhanare,” he recalls, and there is no looking back since then.
The fact that publishers like Meghamala Publications and others from far-off places have encouraged him speaks volumes of the popularity his titles enjoyed among the booklovers. Another interesting facet, which is unheard of in the present times, is the promotion of good works among the masses by the postman. “The postman of Boipariguda used to ask for the first book. He is the first reader and even the promoter of good writings,” Mr. Parichha says.
“The revolution that has been brought about in the literary world in the region by Mr. Parichha is remarkable,” says Narayan Panda, eminent writer and literary observer from Koraput. Pakhi Payeen Gitotiye, the recently published collection of Mr. Parichha’s immortal poems, is the imprint of such a revolution, he adds.
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