A lifetime of personal sacrifice helped Anke Gowda create one of India's largest free-access libraries, earning him the Padma ...

In a move aimed at promoting a reading culture and expanding access to knowledge resources, Mandya Deputy Commissioner Kumar ...

Karnataka’s Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar has told the officials concerned to provide an alternative place as well as a ...

In an era when mobile phones have replaced books as the preferred companions of many, one man from rural Karnataka has spent more than half a century proving that the printed word still matters.

Two million books, housed across a sprawling building, free for anyone to borrow and read. That's the wealth that Anke Gowda, a retired sugar factory worker from India's southern Karnataka state, has ...

For Anke Gowda, reading was a dream. He grew up in a village in a farming family where books were a luxury. He spent his childhood juggling school and helping his father with farm work. He would often ...

Anke Gowda rose from a humble background as a bus conductor to build Pustaka Mane, one of India’s largest free-access libraries, driven solely by his love for books. Through decades of personal ...

Mandya: Anke Gowda , a quiet bibliophile who devoted his life to preserving knowledge, has been honoured with the Padma Shri by the Union govt for building one of India's largest private libraries.The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anke Gowda was passionate about books since he was a child and wanted to inspire others to read too [Alphonse Vimulraj] Two ...