What is a reading room or vaayanashalas? Any room can be turned into a reading room. It can be a dilapidated room that is inexpensively re-painted with just a few chairs around old coffee tables on which some newspapers are left behind for readers by their predecessors or it can be two benches kept under … Continue reading The ‘Reading Room Culture’ Is What Makes Kerala Literate With No Caste Or Religion Barriers, And Yet It’s So Simple