Musings of a Random Reader

It’s a busy Tuesday afternoon, but luckily I am blessed with a free day at home. And sitting beside my window, sipping coffee with my favorite book in my hand, I couldn't help but wonder about my role as a reader in the hierarchy within the literary world.

We all read, don't we? Right from our initial years in school to probably our last days on Earth. We read to learn, to enliven our mood, to experience or to know. It’s said that a reader lives many lives during his lifetime in contrast to the non reader who lives only one. Plus we don't need a qualification to be able to read, except perhaps a working knowledge of language. Anybody can read and interpret what they read in their own way.

If you are reading this, I guess it would be safe to assume that you too, like me, are a reader. So I will refrain from going on and on about the joys of reading, although I am very tempted to do so.

On the other hand, what I want to do in this post is to address you, as a reader to a fellow reader. The thing is, with technology such as kindle, eBooks, even piracy at our doorstep, readers across the world do not have a dearth of reading material available to them.

However what must be also kept in mind is that despite the technology available to us today, there also isn't a dearth of voices that need a platform to get heard.

You see, as a reader, you aren't as blessed as you assume yourself to be. While you do have a say in what you choose to read, your choices are still limited to what publishers around the world choose to publish and what they choose to filter out. There could be millions of voices out there who might resonate with you; in whose words you may find a sense of fellowship but they can't reach you yet.

At Lituminati, these voices can find themselves the niche that they did not have access to earlier.

We, at Lituminati, bring to lime light unheard voices across the world, to the world.

We give the literary enthusiasts all over the world a single word and we receive a myriad of interpretations. Did you read our last anthology that brought out the significance of HOPE for writers across nations, together in one anthology? If not, you can find it on our website.  

Experience HOPE through 29 different voices from different parts of the world.

To conclude, I think readers occupy a very privileged role in the hierarchy within the literary world. You, as a reader sustain it and without you these voices would be like sound in a vacuum. Our next venture is Project CHOAS. 

We hope to give the reading community across the world another opportunity to experience the magnitude of meaning carried by one word through a plethora of voices.

Until then, tell us about your experience as a reader. Have you ever come across a voice that did not get the attention it deserved, yet you were glad to have been lucky enough to come across it?

P.S If you are a writer, feel free to share your thoughts with us on the word CHOAS and stand a chance to get published. You can visit our website for further details.