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A starving boy resting under a banyan tree with a bundle of rice beside him during the Odisha famine.

A Morsel of Rice | A Folk Tale from Odisha

For many of us, it’s difficult to imagine the horrors of a real famine. However, history holds chilling accounts of the devastating famine that struck Odisha hundreds of years ago. This Odisha famine story is a testament to human endurance, sacrifice, and the sheer will to survive. For three consecutive years, not a single drop Read more…

Pallavi Ratha started reading at a very early age, and that helped bring the best out of her

Pallavi Ratha | Readers’ Story of the Week | Story #134

When I think of my love for printed treasures, I am instantly taken back to the time when my mother would sit me down with a glass of hot Bournvita milk on a cool rainy afternoon and hand me a storybook. She would sit beside me with a book of her own. The feeling, the Read more…

HOW RIA MISHRA FROM BHUBANESWAR STARTED READING

Ria’s journey from a Libra to a “libraria”

Since the fateful day when Johannes Gutenberg pressed the first book, the fate of the whole world changed for the better. Now, fast forward a few centuries and you’ve got a quintessential middle-school girl being forced to read a book in a hobby class tailor-made to make some troublesome and hormonal kids read for fun. Read more…