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Open books, tiny hands: How Pune's libraries are wooing kids back to reading

November 08, 2025 2:56 pm

Pune is experiencing a reading renaissance with community libraries encouraging children to rediscover the joy of books.

Libraries in neglect: The grand Asiatic Library in Mumbai once drew scholars and readers eager to lose themselves in its archives. (Express Photo)

Mumbai’s forgotten spaces: What happened to our libraries?

August 25, 2025 11:48 am

Mumbai’s libraries, once alive with debate and discovery, now risk becoming relics of neglect.

Indian author Amitav Ghosh is the 12th author to contribute to the Future Library

Why you will have to wait 89 years to read Amitav Ghosh’s next book

October 12, 2025 9:31 am

Amitav Ghosh contributes to Future Library: The 68-year-old Indian novelist, whose works have traced the histories of empire, migration, and ecological change, was announced as the 12th author to join the century-long literary time capsule.

A Panchayati Raj Department official said that the books were yet to be purchased. “It was about to be done, but since the minister has now called for a review of the book list, it has been put on hold.”

Bihar IAS officer puts father’s books on top in list for panchayat libraries, govt moves to scrap it

December 23, 2024 9:44 am

Then Panchayat Dept head, Mihir Kumar Singh cleared 36 books by his father. Only Dinkar had more in the list of 303

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‘Free libraries for all’: Here’s policy memo on how it is done

April 14, 2024 12:26 pm

The memo seeks to establish a standard for what qualifies as a decent library and establish a curriculum for librarians so they can become ‘repositories for delivering constitutional rights’ instead of being ‘merely record keepers’.

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Free libraries for all: Community Library Project’s appeal to government

August 04, 2023 11:08 am

At the Festival of Libraries on August 5 and 6 at Pragati Maidan, organised by the Ministry of Culture, The Community Library Project (TCLP), which is headed by Koshy, will make an appeal: free libraries for all.

Toy libraries for pre-primary kids in govt schools: Punjab govt releases 38.53 cr grant

November 22, 2022 10:27 am

The cabinet Minister said that parents are showing great interest for admission in pre-primary classes located in government schools this year as compared with previous years.

One for the Books: The TCLP Annual Free Library Festival is back

November 09, 2021 3:27 pm

To be held between November 13 and 21, the event will see a book giveaway on November 13 and 14 at its library in South Extension-Kotla

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How public libraries have evolved to sustain low-income communities amid pandemic

June 15, 2021 6:08 pm

Libraries, for centuries, have served as learning spaces for people of all ages. But, with the second wave of the pandemic, the work of libraries evolved and many started reflecting on their roles in a community