TO PROMOTE LITERACY by Rani Chitrakar
 
panel one: To Promote Literacy by Rani Chitrakar Listen to this story about the illiterates.
Illiterate people live in darkness, we need to have light. If a person remains illiterate, life
is like death.
 
panel two: To Promote Literacy by Rani Chitrakar People who do not know how to read and
write suffer a lot. A man might take a letter to a babu [important man] who says, "I don't
have time to read it." When a couple has a girl, they do not send her to school because they
think she will go to another family. And when that girl married into another family, she has to
suffer a lot. Aren't her mother and father afraid of that?
 
panel three: To Promote Literacy by Rani Chitrakar Naren's son was sick and he bought the
medicine the doctor prescribed. He put the medicine next to some poison and thinking he
was giving his son medicine, gave him poison. His son swallowed it and died.
 
panel four: To Promote Literacy by Rani Chitrakar We need education. Vidyasagar, Kudiram,
and Matangini Hazra were not afraid of anything, they went forward in everything.
 
panel five: To Promote Literacy by Rani Chitrakar People who are educated can help people.
 
panel six: To Promote Literacy by Rani Chitrakar But without any learning, people become bad.
They torture women, become thieves, drink alcohol.
 
panel seven: To Promote Literacy by Rani Chitrakar When a person is illiterate, he cannot keep his
land. Rich people take everything away from us.
 
panel eight: To Promote Literacy by Rani Chitrakar Kalidas was illiterate. Then he received a
boon from the Goddess Saraswati and became a pandit.
 
panel nine: To Promote Literacy by Rani Chitrakar That's why I am saying that everyone in
every family should study.

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