Sublime

The architect of the now largely forgotten Public Library Movement in India was Iyyanki Venkata Ramanayya, who, through Herculean efforts, pushed for the establishment of libraries across all districts, talukas and blocks so that spaces of knowledge were available to all (including women, a revolutionary idea at that time) as early as 1919. For thi

He was after all eighty-two years old, and lacked any of the energy, ambition and worldliness, and indeed the drive and determination, needed to ride the tiger of rebellion.