It was a bold attempt at cracking the Valmiki-Ramayana code and in the process de-mystified the story of Rama to the middle-class -Literate- modern day- telugu reader.
It is well known as the village of great poet and gem of Gujarat Umashankar Joshi, a Gujarati literate, once a President of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad.
Her witty, literate, and deftly plotted novels straddle the "cozy" and "police procedural" genres and are somewhat similar in flavor to those of Martha Grimes, Caroline Graham, M C Beaton, Margaret Yorke, and Pauline Bell.
Chatkhil has an average literacy rate of 52.1% (7+ years), and the national average of 32.4% literate.
He has written books for neo-literate adults, such as The Murder of Mrs. Mohapi (1995), My Cousin Thabo (1995), Take a Chance (1995), My Name is Selina Mabiletsa (1996), and Sergeant Dlamini Falls in Love (1996), biographies of Sol Plaatje and Oliver Tambo for teenagers, and adaptations of works by Bessie Head, Sol Plaatje, and Can Themba.
His father, from Blount County, Tennessee, was a literate black slave who learned how to read and write without being formally educated, and later became a Baptist preacher.
He is probably best known to the scientifically literate public as the translator of papers by Einstein, Lorentz, and other fathers of relativity theory.
According to his own report, the idea of an international language arose out of a conversation he had with one of his parishioners, a semi-literate German peasant whose son had emigrated to America and could no longer be reached by mail because the United States Postal Service couldn't read the father's handwriting.
The magazine regularly featured a literate section on English grammar and word usage, and would recommend carefully selected good books.
Between 2005 and 2009, Dr. Jack Miller of the Central Connecticut State University conducted annual studies aimed at identifying America's most literate cities drawing from a variety of available data resources, the America’s Most Literate Cities study ranks the largest cities (population 250,000 and above) in the United States.
Poul Reichhardt got a special popularity during his performing in the so-called Morten Korch movies in the 1950s based upon novels written by a just as popular Danish regionalist light literate – here he normally played the honest young farmer fighting for his happiness and for his love.
Saakshar Bharat is a government of India initiative launched by Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh to create a literate society through a variety of teaching learning programmes for non-literate and neo-literate of 15 years and above.
He then worked for a year as a missionary among the pre-literate Warli people before becoming an Anglican.
It is the far sightedness of some of the leaders in Kozhencherry, that made it a 100% literate town in Kerala.
It is the story of The Twentieth Century told by a last, and is inspired by the Terra Matta, a memoir published by Einaudi in 2007, written in approximate Italian by Vincenzo Rabito (class 1899), a former laborer and Sicilian worker semi-literate but of great narrative ability, who attended the world War I and African adventure (in Ogaden).
Meeker's advertisement specifically sought volunteers of high moral standards, who were literate and adherents to the tenets of the Temperance movements.