Sri Lankan Literacy Rate
A simple Google search yields: "Sri Lanka's population has a literacy rate of 92% , higher than that expected for a third world country; it has the highest literacy rate in South Asia and overall, one of the highest literacy rates in Asia." Sri Lankans have been proud of this statistic for as long as I can remember. I was reading this article that quotes James Baldwin as having said: “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me the most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” How true. Reading, to me as opened up a link to an outside world I would not have otherwise known or seen. But most importantly felt. It has given me an avenue to feel empathy, learn about human emotion and character. I dare even hope, helped build my own character. Ultimately helped face my own torments in l