Quotable quote: If modernization of libraries really happens, By Shampa Dhar Kamath

 If modernization of libraries really happens, India will be stocked with delivery rooms for the birth of new ideas. Libraries Dying but Literature Thrives By Shampa Dhar Kamath. Indian Express, 16th March 2014. 

context: "By emphasizing selling over lending, the panelists were perhaps just looking out for their bread and butter; by giving libraries the go-by, they were only doing what the rest of India has been doing for a while now. Actually, why just India; public libraries are becoming alien items in many parts of the world. Every other day, you will find articles in the London papers ruing the fact that libraries are mandatory in British prisons but not in their schools."

 

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