Call Number: Where This Story Starts Search any government database for “school library,” and the system will almost always return a hit. Search for a room a child can actually walk into, sit down comfortably, and read in, and the results thin out dramatically. This is the gap this entry is really about. Subject: The…
Ask a child in a well-resourced private school about their favourite book, and they will usually have an answer ready. Ask the same question in many government schools across India, and the honest answer is often that there was never really a library to choose from in the first place. Textbooks may exist, but storybooks,…