{"id":146053,"date":"2020-12-22T01:24:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T19:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=146053"},"modified":"2020-12-22T01:24:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T19:54:15","slug":"joy-of-reading-mela-organized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/12\/22\/joy-of-reading-mela-organized\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Joy of reading&#8217; mela organized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>DIMWE, 21 Dec:<\/strong> About 60 children of Classes 3 to 10 participated in a &#8216;Joy of reading&#8217; mela organized jointly by the BRTF and Tezu-based Bamboosa Library here in Lohit district recently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing the valedictory function, 48 BRTF Commander Col Saurabh Srivastava said, &#8220;If you are in the habit of reading, you become a person better informed than those around. Hence, helping children to discover the joy of reading is more relevant today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He congratulated the senior activists of Bamboosa Library who conducted a two-day training workshop for young people of Dimwe area as part of the mela.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pointing out that the BRTF has been organizing reading events with Bamboosa Library since 2009, Col Srivastava made a handsome contribution to Bamboosa Library to extend the reading campaign across the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Captain Shivani Sharma, who coordinated the mela, elaborated the importance of<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">promoting reading, &#8220;especially at such times like the Corona crisis, when the youth have been totally deprived of healthy human interactions, creating mental stress on many.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Outlining the evolution and salient features of the Lohit Youth Library movement, senior activist Jeenamsi Ngadong said, &#8220;Our motto has been, &#8216;When readers can&#8217;t come to books, books must go to readers&#8217;.&#8221; She thanked the district administrations of Lohit, Namsai, Anjaw and Lower Dibang Valley and patrons for their support.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking on the topic &#8216;Why a reading movement?&#8217;, Lohit Youth Libraries coordinator S Mundayoor appealed to all educated individuals to &#8220;involve actively to spread the joy of reading around their neighbourhood.&#8221; He also thanked the BRTF commander for offering to organize the mela here, benefitting more than 100 families.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The highlights of the valedictory function were storytelling, poem recitations, book reading, a reading theatre and a skit. A book exhibition for young readers and parents with titles from the CBT, the NBT, Tulika, the TERI and Eklavya was also organized as part of the mela.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DIMWE, 21 Dec: About 60 children of Classes 3 to 10 participated in a &#8216;Joy of reading&#8217; mela organized jointly by the BRTF and Tezu-based Bamboosa Library here in Lohit district recently. Addressing the valedictory function, 48 BRTF Commander Col Saurabh Srivastava said, &#8220;If you are in the habit of reading, you become a person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-146053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}