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Feature: The Eloor Lending Library

Trove of Tomes The Eloor lending library’s bank of books has ensured that Chennai will never be at a loss for words of the printed kind.  “If my DVD player works fine, and I have my Eloor membership, its going to be a happy old age for me,” says a scriptwriter for Tamil films, of…

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Books: Is India Reading?

The book still rules  Harry Potter notwithstanding, it’s been a parade of pretenders:  the television, the Net, cineplexes, video games. Has this blitzkrieg killed the love of books in us? Sheila Kumar does a reconnoitre of the  situation and brings in a clear verdict. Is India reading? What a no-brainer question, right? Of course India…

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