Liter(ary)ally a healing touch!

Tribune News Service

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Jalandhar, November 8

Touched by the fact that the inmates of the Old Age Home at Shaheed Udham Singh Nagar do not get anything to read, a Good Samaritan couple yesterday visited the centre and donated a couple of books, basically short stories by Rabindra Nath Tagore.

Navjeet Kaur, a computer science lecturer from Government Polytechnic, Ladowali Road, and her husband Gurraj Singh, who is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering from Dr BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, said they had read a report in Jalandhar Tribune last month and made up their mind to make books available to the elderly putting up at the Old Age Home.

“I asked my father, who has been a professor of Library Sciences, as to which books would be good for the elderly to read. So, he suggested me some books which we purchased from the local market and handed over to the inmates. The inmates were really happy on getting the books. We spent some time with them and asked them about their other needs,” said Navjeet.

She said she had plans to visit the centre again next month. “The elderly men and women at the centre requested us to bring books in Hindi also. They said they would prefer some books of Radha-Krishan or other stories related to mythology. We also plan to donate them some blankets when we plan to go the next time in December as it would be cold then,” she said.