Date:01/10/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/10/01/stories/2008100157552200.htm

National

Readers all

— Photo: Thulasi Kakkat

INFORMATION SOCIETY: A placid setting on Tuesday in Fort Kochi keeps these readers engrossed in the day’s newspapers at a road-side reading room. With a long record of total literacy and a newspaper-reading orientation, Kerala has libraries and reading rooms spread across rural and urban areas. Some, as humble as this one, and others on a grand scale, attract people from different walks of life.