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INFORMATION SOCIETY: A placid setting on Tuesday in Fort Kochi keeps these readers engrossed in the day’s newspapers at a road-side reading room. With a long record of total literacy and a newspaper-reading orientation, Kerala has libraries and reading rooms spread across rural and urban areas. Some, as humble as this one, and others on a grand scale, attract people from different walks of life.

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