Library

For the people, by the people: Revisiting Andhra's glorious library movement, and its largely disappearing remnants

If the library movement set up libraries as centres of a cultural awakening, its remnants are largely disappearing in our landscape

For MPSC aspirants in rural Maharashtra, lockdown curtails access to vital library services, educational resources

Students in Maharashtra's villages often travel several kms to the nearest library to prepare for the MPSC exams, or move to big cities and towns to work part-time even as they study. With the lockdown, most are now stuck at home, where the seven-hour study routine has whittled down to two, and books and other material are scant.

The Anti-National Library: Nightmares — and waking fears — of a reader who keeps dangerous books

In my nightmare, I am in cuffs, watching burly men in hazmat suits picking my library apart. One of the men informs me that already, several boxes of Highly Incriminating Evidence have been seized. The charges read like a Greatest Hits Package of Indian judicial overreach — sedition, conspiring against the state, insulting Hinduism and so on.

Artist Aqui Thami's Sister Library is a community-owned space bringing together books by, of and for women

Artist Aqui Thami envisions the Sister Library as a safe space celebrating the voices of women, housing writings only by women, to bring about social change.

A Tamil lyricist is reinventing one of Chennai’s last surviving libraries and bringing readers back

Stories Library Café in Chennai’s KK Nagar is reinventing itself and bringing readers back from the woodworks.

China's futuristic library: More fiction than books

A futuristic Chinese library has wowed book lovers around the world with its white, undulating shelves rising from floor to ceiling, but if you read between the lines you'll find something is missing. Those rows upon rows of book spines are mostly images printed on the aluminium plates that make up the backs of the shelves.

'In The City: A Library' is a nostalgic take on the disappearing library culture of Mumbai

In the City: A Library features pictures of old books taken at People’s Free Reading Room by Chirodeep Chaudhari with words by Jerry Pinto

Class V student runs library in Bhopal slum, gets Rs 2 lakh from Shivraj Chouhan to help with setup

In a novel initiative, a Class V student living in a slum in Bhopal has been encouraging other children to study by running a library from her house.

Horseback library serves Indonesia's readers in remote villages

Ridwan Sururi looks more cowboy than librarian while his horse Luna is saddled with books - he has a mobile library that serves Indonesia's remote readers.

New Hampshire library fights government surveillance, promotes privacy

The Kilton Public Library in Lebanon last year became the nation's first library to use Tor, software in a project initiated by the Library Freedom Project