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VOICE MAIL

        Sir,

        The Point Blank by Shri T R Jawahar that appeared in News Today (20 January, 2007) is not a mere leader, it is a sermon! Warm felicitations on your forthrightness and on your unflinching realism. I have read, learnt, marked, inwardly digested every line. Multum in parvo. If properly used with astute discernment, the cathode tube is not a stumbling block to the study of books. But, could indeed, synthesise the understanding of 'Macbeth' or Kalidasa's 'Kumarasambhava'. Far from being an impediment, it is a complement.

        But, where and why books clinch the issue forever is by virtue of their 'capacity for recall and record'. The readers could go back and scan. This is precisely what Dr Burke Hedges emphasises repeatedly in his commendable little work 'Read and Grow Rich'. Of course, reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Right well did Cicero writes 'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need'. The man who knows how to read multiplies and magnifies the way he lives. Keeps boredom at bay.