2012 Literature Month promote APIIT Students ...

September is well-known as Literature month in Sri Lanka. Literary festivals are organized Island wide throughout the month under the support of the government, universities, book publishers, printers and non-government organizations. 

The tendency of reading among youth should be improved. The current day youth prefers to read love stories rather than works of such renowned writers such as Martin Wickramasingha or K. Jayatileka. Local scholars should be encouraged to write books on science and other fields in Sinhala as there is a dearth of science writers in the country.

English books on science, maths and various other subjects are imported from India and other countries. The main theme of the literature month should be to create a reading public. Most of the libraries are not patronized specially by the youth. The lack of interest in reading is detrimental to the society. Schools should organised competitions to reward students who read. Most of the musical contests end-up in brawls and at time in killings as well.

The youth are not equipped with the facility to enjoy music or singing. Low quality Tele -dramas and novels corrupt young minds. Steps should be taken to promote reading among youth.

The powerful “Colombo International Book Fair” held in 2012 between 17^th to 25^th September, for the consecutive 13^th time.  Under the organization of Sri Lanka Book Publishers Association this jumbo book fair apprehended annually in BMICH- Convention & Exhibition Center since 1999. In the commencement it was only 28 stalls for the exhibition. Annually due to the grown popularity number of both books publishes and visitors considerably increased. 

Also many of the Libraries as well as universities conducted many events to enhance the knowledge of subjects in reading and to build a full man with power of knowledge.








Reading provides us the possibility of opening ourselves up to a magical world, which helps us to become perfect. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend. So if you are considered to be lack of wisdom, history will teach you how to think and heighten your ability of analyzing and solving problems.

If you always feel yourself stay in a confused state, philosophy will illuminate the path in front of you. If you hope your life is suffused with romance and passion, read poets please. Shakespeare, Byron and Shelley will put color on your life.

In a word, books are the crystals of all intelligence. Reading not only enables us to make a conversation with all the giants, but also lets us to think profoundly by standing on their shoulders. Reading offers us a marvelous word, comfort our soul and improve our capability, and hence all these impacts together will make a full man. 

The individual reading, creative writing, filling puzzles etc competitions were conducted to enhance the students reading ability in the APIIT City Campus 2012. It was very competitive among the students and was held on 01-06 in October 2012.Because of the Students Examinations conducted in September and considering holidays of the students. The following image taken by author includes the competitions conducted in the reading week at APIIT.

Author attended to the last competition as she is a favor of that and has the experience for that competition island widely too. So author wrote an essay for the topic "Higher Education In Sri Lankan Private Universities id a Success or a Failiure" .  

Some students in APIIT participated to the competitions and I like to say that the participation to a university competition is also good than staying along by watching movies or chatting with others. Although i am going to APIIT from 2 years this is my FIRST time participated to a competition conducted by APIIT and i will never forget this valuable occasion in my life forever. 

The winners were on the notice boards of APIIT and my name also was there for the participated competition. And for all the winners there was a prize giving in the APIIT Level 3 on last 31st of October 2012. And the chief guest was Dr. Athula Pitigalaarachchi and there were some of the lecturers and library staff as well the Marketing staff. The start and the end of the prize giving was extremely good. The sponsor was by Expo-Graphics and Sarasavi Bookshops and the seating arrangement was good. The speech of Dr. Pitigalaarachchi, Ms Wathsala were good and important to the students to make a full man of reading in the future life. The students were gifted with some books and some valuable things. And I take this opportunity to thank for the all guests attended as they helped us to enhance our talents in the competitions.

Good readers can understand the individual sentences and the organizational structure of a piece of writing. They can comprehend ideas, follow arguments, and detect implications. They know most of the words in the text already, but they can also determine the meaning of many of the unfamiliar words from the context - failing this, they can use their dictionary effectively to do so. In summary, good readers can extract from the writing what is important for the particular task they are employed in. And they can do it quickly!