A surprise appearance by actor Mammootty enlivened the Reading Day celebrations organised jointly by the Education and Panchayat departments, the Information and Public Relations Department, and the P.N. Panicker Foundation in the capital city on Friday.
When the actor walked on to the stage, the audience comprising mainly schoolchildren greeted him with claps and cheers. “Reading should not be confined to a day or a week. These celebrations are merely a reminder. Keep reading every day of your life,” Mammootty told the children drawn from different schools in the city. Chairing the meeting, Education Minister P.K. Abdu Rabb called upon the children to learn to differentiate between right and wrong and the sense to filter the information they saw on the Internet. — Special Correspondent
