Spread the good word about The Community Library Project
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December 18, 2020 18:54 IST
In the season of giving, a Delhi-based project is raising support for a community library that goes beyond books
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The Community Library Project in progress before Covid
In the season of giving, a Delhi-based project is raising support for a community library that goes beyond books
During the first pandemic lockdown in March, Zomato employee Jalish Ansari lost his job. While many fellow migrants had returned to their native villages, he decided to stay in Delhi and look for other employment. Going back to his village in Bareli, Uttar Pradesh, was not an option it would have meant compromising his daughters’ education. Heena, who studies in DPS, Gurugram, and Sana in Summer Fields School, Kailash Colony (both in standard six), were anxious too, as schools were closed and online classes had just begun. Amidst this, they had one escape: The Community Libra
Mulk Raj Anand, writer for the ages
December 12 is the birth anniversary of Mulk Raj Anand, who could be considered the first Indian-English novelist. His novels, Coolie and Untouchable, set an entire generation of educated Indians thinking about the social evils perpetuated in the country in the name of religion and hollow traditions.
Mulk Raj Anand
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Mulk Raj Anand belongs to the clan of those progressive Indian writers who wielded their pen in English with an inimitable ease and grace. It was the time when India was all poised to herald a great transition and while Anandâs towering contemporaries like Munshi Premchand and Faiz Ahmad Faiz, were holding the fort of the progressive writers movement with great elan in Hindi and Urdu, Anand chose to express his deep angst in English. His novels Coolie and Untouchable set an entire generation of educated Indians thinking about India s social evils that were perpetuated in the name of religion and hollow traditions. The