A few days ago, I visited the library in our town. I was pained to see just a few people inside. Disturbed terribly, I realised that there was a decline in the number of readers in libraries, which are fading out of modern life with people hardly visiting them.
Nowadays, people especially the young, inextricably accustomed, addicted and enslaved to smartphones, Internet and modern gadgets of various kinds, do not feel the necessity of visiting libraries in their villages, towns and cities; nor do they find time to be in libraries.
There were golden times when the young and the old would find time to visit libraries and invariably spend many hours in the mornings and evenings in libraries, reading books of various categories, magazines and newspapers. In my school, college and university days, library was an essential part of my life and education. To the people of my generation, the library was not just a building or a place of books, but a temple of learning like our educational institutions and a sacred shrine of knowledge. So I was habituated to visiting the library in our town whenever I found free time and I would pick up the books of my choice, magazines and newspapers, both regional and national, and had the pleasure of reading.
