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 ...

Coimbatore's Periyar Arivulagam, a new eight-storey library and science hub, is set to open next month. This facility, ...

From a bus conductor with a love for books to the guardian of one of India’s greatest free libraries, Anke Gowda’s life is a ...

On August 15, 1854, a five-coach train pulled by a British-made locomotive left Howrah at 8:30 am for Hooghly without any fanfare — signalling an engineering triumph and the beginning of eastern India ...

Gowda, founder of one of India’s largest free-access libraries, is among three Padma Shri awardees from Karnataka this year, along with Dr Suresh Hanagavadi and Dr S G Sushilamma ...

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

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 ...