<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354195" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Promise to eradicate illiteracy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Promise to eradicate<br> Illiteracy</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The dark veil of flowing illiteracy, <br>As a canopy on our growing democracy; <br> Covers many crores of our great lot, <br> Under which teeming with ignorance, rot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unaware of the goings on around, <br>Stark illiteracy with poverty bound; <br> The window of the wide world is shut, <br> And the kaleidoscopic view of the panorama is cut.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The spiritual and intellectual devolpment, <br>Not sparked off by literary involvement, <br> Is a curse on the person and the nation, <br> As multitudes live like animals sans education.<br> <br>Seized of the problem, in many a country, <br>UNESCO launched a war on illiteracy; <br> Allocating funds, the malady to cure, <br> With India taking the cudgel, very sure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To kindle the dawn of consciousness, <br>Of the need of literacy's importance; <br> A programme of National Adult Education, <br> Is on the anvil with much ovation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of all the state birds flying in thirst, <br>Kerala's bird has landed first; <br> With Ernakulam carrying the flag high, <br> Inducing others their flight to stage by! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let us scouts now make out a promise, <br>A multi-pronged attack without a miss-<br> To launch on 'illiteracy'-the monster dreadful, <br> With a spirit of commitment and hearts so full.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Chandra+Thiagarajan">Chandra Thiagarajan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354195" data-title="A Promise to eradicate illiteracy de Chandra Thiagarajan" data-description="A Promise to eradicate Illiteracy The dark veil of flowing illiteracy, As a canopy on our growing democracy; Covers many crores of our great lot, Under which teeming with ignorance, rot. Unaware of the goings on around, Stark illiteracy ..."></div> </div> </div>

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