Free library

At Bhubaneswar Airport, two shelves of books are making travel softer and kinder. Here’s how Flybrary runs on trust and love for stories.

Frustrated by the lack of reading spaces, college friends Heet and Om started ‘Your Reading Circle’ — a simple idea that’s turning parks across Ahmedabad into free, walk-in libraries. Here’s how you can bring the same magic to your neighbourhood.

Assam's Rituparna Neog runs Akam Foundation, an NGO that builds free libraries in villages to break barriers around gender, LGBTQ communities and sexuality.

The community library at Cheruia was open to the public in the first week of September and it has over 600 books - 200 educational books and 400 storybooks

Lakshmi Karunakaran, with the volunteers, has been conducting reading sessions with the children of about 200 families living in a slum.

The fully-computerized 'Aksharam' library was set up by Anirudh Mahesh and Aamir Kudel, higher secondary students of Emirates International School in Dubai, after renovating the existing library of the school.

Syed Isaq is a 61-year-old illiterate daily-wage worker who has been running a free library for those in his community for several years now.