by Roshin T. Roy
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Mar Thomas College for Women, Perumbavoor.
What is reading? Are we readers? The meaning of the term is often reduced to the process of decoding words printed in a sheet of paper, grabbing the hidden content and inserting it into one’s consciousness. Can reading be such a passive activity where the reader’s role is only to receive the already prepared information? Furthermore, what can be read? Is it only stories, essays or biographies that needs reading? Can the definition of reading include something more than that?