Tag: National Library

Educating a girl child

A CSR film was projected by the Skipper Foundation team titled Dropped Outwas screened, which talked about the fact that 57 per cent of the women population drop out from school, colleges or workspaces just because women education is still not an important issue to many.

September 7, 2019

Oddity at Belvedere

The academic importance of this institution cannot be denuded with a stroke of the bureaucratic pen.

January 16, 2019

Adieu P Thankappan Nair! The Kolkata chronicler calls it a day

P Thankappan Nair now seeks to research the history of Malayalam printing, which is stated to have originated in Chandamangalam, his village in Kerala

November 26, 2018

Picnic at National

The National Library deserves to be left alone… in splendid isolation. A decade after a paramilitary rehearsal for the Republic Day parade ignited a controversy on the misuse of the sprawling complex, the wedding celebrations at the Central Services Officers’ Club were vehemently opposed by readers and borrowers of books. The environmental pollution has now...

January 10, 2018

Blaring music disturbs National Library environs as employees enjoy picnic

National Library authorities are sitting idle while a reportedly unauthorised employees’ union held a picnic inside the sprawling library complex today, in violation of rules, just a couple of days before the visit of the secretary in the union ministry of culture, Mr. Raghavendra Singh, to the prestigious central government institute. Dr Arun Chakraborty, director...

January 7, 2018