Two million books, housed across a sprawling building, free for anyone to borrow and read. That's the wealth that Anke Gowda, ...

Chennai: Students, educationists and librarians will get to attend lectures and panel discussions on library development and ...

Anke Gowda, a Padma Shri awardee, has built the world's largest free access library with over two million books in Karnataka, India.

On August 15, 1854, a five-coach train pulled by a British-made locomotive left Howrah at 8:30 am for Hooghly without any ...

Anke Gowda, a 75-year-old Padma Shri awardee from Karnataka, has spent over five decades building one of India's largest free ...

The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library,” Albert Einstein once wrote — a thought that ...

Anke Gowda, founder of Pustaka Mane in Mandya, has been awarded the Padma Shri for building one of India’s largest free ...

In a district better known for cybercrime than classrooms, an abandoned police station in Jamtara’s Karmatar area has found a ...

A former bus conductor from Haralahalli village in Karnataka’s Mandya district, Gowda has spent over 50 years single-handedly building “Pustaka Mane” (House of Books), one of India’s largest ...

SOME places announce their importance; others reveal it slowly, like a story that refuses to hurry. The Lal Bahadur Shastri ...

Anke Gowda, who began collecting books at the age of 20, was awarded the Padma Shri, one of India’s highest civilian honours, ...