The little revolution engines

Almost every house has some of these engines—the revolutionary engines. These little dormant engines which work silently but effectively are the base of any revolution. We are talking about books.

Yes, the books which open gates of knowledge and understanding are little revolution factories. It is for these reasons that they have always been a target of the tyrant rulers. Be it during the times of India’s freedom struggle or the renaissance or Europe or the middle-east. Books have always been at the loggerheads with the suppression.

Even otherwise, Nazi’s used books, the Russian revolution was based on books, and literature was the basis of Indian freedom struggle.

But why the books play such a great role. Books which are harmless packets of wisdom considered so dangerous by the ruling classes.

It is because they enlighten people, they transform minds, they influence, they turn a meek commoner into a mighty revolutionary.

They change the perceptions of the society, they change masses. But interestingly, with such a little readership how come is it possible to influence masses. Though nowadays due to online books and easy options to buy books online, readership is increasing but how these books were considered so influential in old times when in a country like India, where there was illiteracy, the books were being constantly banned and under the target of British rulers. To answer this question we need to have a look at the models of communication. Basically an educated man is a leader (principal communicator), the word spreads through secondary leaders, then tertiary and then the masses, suppose, an author writes a books, another reader reads it, he refers it to another and these people who could read spread the word among those who cant read or write. Actually in a society where majority of the population is illiterate, literates are normally the leaders or influential who influence the society at large. It was mainly this aspect which made books formidable even in the old India where people were illiterate.

Anyways enough of serious talks, forget, just buy books online and enjoy reading.

Happy reading!