How India’s Librarians Are Turning Books into Social Change
Illustrations by Somesh Kumar Photographs byPankaj Mishra Saba Khan was five years old when she first began borrowing comic books from a neighborhood kirana shop in Bagh Dilkusha, on the outskirts of Bhopal. She would thumb through Chacha Chaudhary and Natraj comics for one rupee an hour, racing aga
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https://factordaily.com/how-indias-librarians-are-turning-books-into-social-change/Illustrations by Somesh Kumar Photographs byPankaj Mishra Saba Khan was five years old when she first began borrowing comic books from a neighborhood kirana shop in Bagh Dilkusha, on the outskirts of Bhopal. She would thumb through Chacha Chaudhary and Natraj comics for one rupee an hour, racing against time to finish them before returning […]
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