KNOWLEDGE SHELVED...!!
A story for Deccan Chronicle Kochi edition..!
The advent of the cyber culture has brought vital changes in lives of Keralites. Attaining knowledge right at the fingertip has made our lives on ease but the harmony that one's mind attain through flipping the old pages of a book is replaced with big and bigger tabloids, smart phones and other electronic gadgets. So near are the days when the arrival of paperless world would not surprise us. But the fact that books are an inevitable part and it has to be nurtured so as to lead a qualitative life is well taken into account by at least some of the book lovers in the state. The welcoming home library culture is the perfect example proving this.
A reading space at home...
Antony Joseph, Kakkanad owns a home library. He thinks his retired life after a stressful job period abroad enticed him to set up one. He recalls the time he started his library in 1975 with the book, 'Freedom at Midnight ' authored by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. He says "Yester years, people with books were considered intellectuals and were widely respected. Books were the only source of knowledge and entertainment. Reading was hobby for many." Antony's love for books led him to set up a home library. He believes setting up one is a wise decision he made and finds the place peaceful. "I never keep books under lock and key. Some of my friends borrow books and will never return. Words are the property of society and the same are being enriched from generation to generation. Good writers will borrow these words and return it with interest for the generation yet to come. “He adds. His home library follows a systematic order with books numbered and sealed; maintaining a genuine structure.
Books in an aesthetic ambiance….
Rishma Mariya Johnson @rishmariya.blogspot.com
Rishma Mariya Johnson, an interior designing student hailing from Thrissur goes chatty about her home library. Being a passionate design student, her initial design works started with the home library designs constituting nearly 2000books shelved. She has also included wall art and decors. “It should be a noiseless reading area; my library must be in synonym with peace and tranquility, a soothing space supported with books. My favorite style is the ‘Vintage appeal’ but now I have limited my home library theme to simple wall art style with paintings that suit a library” she says. Her plan is to expand the home library to such a way that it looks friendly to all age groups; some of the kiddy arts she has experimented explain this. Rishma has also made effort to chronologically categorize books based on their genres, she maintains a book list so as to keep an account of the books been borrowed and lend.
Keeping a track on the bookish world, one can say without any ambiguity that the rising home library trend ; if growing in the same pace can bring vital positive changes as it is a mode that fills knowledge in brains. Let scholarly and studious buds gloom in the state.
-ATHIRA ELSSA JOHNSON
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The advent of the cyber culture has brought vital changes in lives of Keralites. Attaining knowledge right at the fingertip has made our lives on ease but the harmony that one's mind attain through flipping the old pages of a book is replaced with big and bigger tabloids, smart phones and other electronic gadgets. So near are the days when the arrival of paperless world would not surprise us. But the fact that books are an inevitable part and it has to be nurtured so as to lead a qualitative life is well taken into account by at least some of the book lovers in the state. The welcoming home library culture is the perfect example proving this.
A reading space at home...
Antony Joseph, Kakkanad owns a home library. He thinks his retired life after a stressful job period abroad enticed him to set up one. He recalls the time he started his library in 1975 with the book, 'Freedom at Midnight ' authored by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. He says "Yester years, people with books were considered intellectuals and were widely respected. Books were the only source of knowledge and entertainment. Reading was hobby for many." Antony's love for books led him to set up a home library. He believes setting up one is a wise decision he made and finds the place peaceful. "I never keep books under lock and key. Some of my friends borrow books and will never return. Words are the property of society and the same are being enriched from generation to generation. Good writers will borrow these words and return it with interest for the generation yet to come. “He adds. His home library follows a systematic order with books numbered and sealed; maintaining a genuine structure.
Books in an aesthetic ambiance….
Rishma Mariya Johnson @rishmariya.blogspot.com
Rishma Mariya Johnson, an interior designing student hailing from Thrissur goes chatty about her home library. Being a passionate design student, her initial design works started with the home library designs constituting nearly 2000books shelved. She has also included wall art and decors. “It should be a noiseless reading area; my library must be in synonym with peace and tranquility, a soothing space supported with books. My favorite style is the ‘Vintage appeal’ but now I have limited my home library theme to simple wall art style with paintings that suit a library” she says. Her plan is to expand the home library to such a way that it looks friendly to all age groups; some of the kiddy arts she has experimented explain this. Rishma has also made effort to chronologically categorize books based on their genres, she maintains a book list so as to keep an account of the books been borrowed and lend.
Keeping a track on the bookish world, one can say without any ambiguity that the rising home library trend ; if growing in the same pace can bring vital positive changes as it is a mode that fills knowledge in brains. Let scholarly and studious buds gloom in the state.
-ATHIRA ELSSA JOHNSON
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