Switch over to reading from addiction to reels and shorts, says CM Stalin

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File photograph  of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin

File photograph of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin | Photo Credit: The Hindu

Chief Minister M.K. Stalin connected Monday (December 22, 2025) made a beardown lawsuit for speechmaking books, saying speechmaking was a signifier of meditation.

“However engaged you are, work books for astatine slightest fractional an hr oregon adjacent 15 minutes [daily]. Children successful your location travel you. Parents should beryllium an illustration to their children,” helium said portion releasing 3 books — Theerarkal Kottam DMK, Dravida Arasiyal–Dravida Arasu Iyal, and Muraiseithu Kaapatrum Muthalamaichar — by writer P. Thirumavelan.

Mr. Stalin besides expressed interest implicit the increasing addiction to societal media reels and shorts that past lone a fewer seconds, saying specified habits had prevented the younker from concentrating connected anything.

“They endure from a deficiency of concentration. They should realise that bully things instrumentality time. Reading books is simply a meditation and volition assistance the caput to concentrate,” helium said.

Mr. Stalin described books arsenic “weapons of knowledge” and said similar each weapons, they would corrode if kept connected racks without being used. “Do not support books connected racks simply to decorate houses. Read each day, and it volition forestall your encephalon from corroding,” helium said.

The Chief Minister reiterated that arsenic agelong arsenic the DMK followed its “tradition of amassing knowledge”, semi-literate forces could not adjacent shingle the party, which had grown similar a banyan tree.

“Reading and improvement are intertwined. Tamil Nadu, which emerged due to the fact that of Dravidianism, volition not bow to anyone. The daydream of fascists volition not go a reality,” helium said.

Published - December 23, 2025 10:14 americium IST

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