Who reads books these days? 

Vijay Garg 

 

 As we have become modern, we are becoming slaves of technology. As a result, the distance from books is continuously increasing. The scope of education being accessible to all has increased, rather than actually happening, it is becoming more an impression that the continuous distance of students from the education on which books have been the basis, is a cause of great concern for the educationists. Education policies and curriculum have been changing with time, yet studentsAre finding other ways instead of books. For example, the distribution of education is being crossed with the help of notes, passbooks and 'One Week' series etc. If students are pursuing higher education without books, then how much are they able to learn or absorb? What kind of citizens are being created in the citadels of education? The truth is that despite the advice and lectures given to the readers or students, they do not become book-oriented because the environment is continuously becoming anti-book. After TV, the arrival of smartphones and easy access to dataAfter this, everything has become online. It seems that consumers no longer need to go to the market or children to school, nor do employees need to go to the office. 'Work from home' or work and meetings from home has started happening online and all the education is being done sitting at home through video. In such a situation, who would open the book and sit down to read? The question has arisen that who reads books in such times? When there is a plethora of information, 'Google Baba' is present to give every information without even opening the pages, then why should students reach for the book?Who will look after libraries when there are so many options for books? With audio-videos of every subject available on YouTube and a network of coaching centers spread across every city, aren't books just going to become mere adornments of libraries? Time cannot be turned back under any circumstances. It is true that the speed of man has increased a lot. No one has extra time or they want to achieve success in minimum time and at all costs. Now the thought of walking long and safely has completely disappeared. While restraint, contentmentThere is complete scarcity, in such a situation everyone wants peace, but not now, it can be achieved only in the grave, because peace is needed tomorrow. Today everyone is in the race to achieve and get more money. In such a situation, instead of becoming readers of books, they have become constantly in the grip of audio-video. In literature, this is the time of story, not novel. It has been a subject of debate that who has more readers in poetry or story? The way novels are coming out every year, this proves that even though there is less inclination towards books in colleges, butReaders of the popular genre of literature, the novel, remain even today. The novel has not been called the epic of the present times for nothing. Even in these anti-book times, novels being published and read on a large scale is proof that novels have readers. Any reader who wants to understand time and society in depth is still buying and reading books. There is a big difference between being a reader of literature and students becoming readers. Those teachers who pass the examination through the 'One Week' series and sooner or later, when they start teaching, are the teachers of this era.The hidden layers and reasons behind readerlessness can be understood. How will such teachers be able to create new readers without being readers of books? Therefore, at this time, there may be many other reasons behind the increasing lack of readers and the process of turning away from books or the end of books, solutions to solve them can also be found, but unlike the increasing technology, changing thinking and decreasing restraint on books. It is happening. In such a situation, being a reader of books feels like an oasis in the desert. In almost any public place or on tripsEveryone holds the smartphone in their hand and keeps their attention focused on it, as if they are doing some deep research in it. In such a situation, whenever a person is seen reading with a book in his hand, it seems that something strange in the world is passing through the scene.