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> Kerala, we learn here, is the only Indian state whose legislative assembly holds a Literary Book Festival. Here, every district – even some talukas – hold their own Lit Fests.

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> A unique library in the forests of Kerala’s Idukki district is run by P. V. Chinnathambi, 86. Its 2,000 books – all classics – are borrowed, read and returned by poor Muthuvan Adivasis

> The gathering at the 4th Kerala Legislature International Book Festival here on January 9 was bowled over. They had never seen a man running a library at his own expense for his marginalised tribe. That too, in the remotest part of Kerala.

The wilderness library retold

A unique library in the forests of Kerala’s Idukki district is run by P. V. Chinnathambi, 86. Its 2,000 books – all classics – are borrowed, read and returned by poor Muthuvan Adivasis

PARI - People's Archive of Rural India (ruralindiaonline.org)

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