I read with interest Shashi Tharoor’s latest column in The Week – “I plead that you read” – and asked our young one to do so too

Erudite Mr. Shashi Tharoor’s [column (link)](https://www.theweek.in/columns/shashi-tharoor/2023/11/10/why-higher-level-reading-is-important.html) hit home for me, especially since I have been encouraging our young one to read (and review) books, which he has been doing for a couple of years.

Mr. Tharoor concludes with Margaret Atwood’s much quoted warning, *“If there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy will be dead as well.”*

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‘* Shashi Tharoor is former international civil servant (UN Under Secretary General) bureaucrat, politician, a noted writer and public intellectual who has been serving as Member of Parliament

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