A student reads in the Centre for Learning Library

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Changes After the librarians’ workshop!

Our reading corner….. They can take reading cushion where ever they like in the library…… This month children are going to help us in decorating their reading corner…. One girl artist from class VIII has some nice ideas and she wants to paint the walls with fabric colours…! We discussed with our children and they […]

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Two library projects close to my heart

1. Under the aegis of Sir Ratan Tata Trust, I have been interacting with the Kalike group in Yadgir, Karnataka. One of their thrusts is to strengthen and enhance library use and reading, in the 50 schools they work with. In this connection, they have appointed library animators at each of these schools. The decision […]

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If Kausani can have a library can Varadenahalli be far behind?

About 40 kms from Bangalore city under the benevolent shadow of the Savandurga monolithic rock hill, lies a small village called Varadenahalli. To some of us, it has come to be home because our school, CFL has spread its roots in the welcoming soil of this village. For some years now, the children of the […]

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Miracles do happen!

June 15th 2012. Kausani, In the Kumaon Himalayas in Uttarakhand, is a small hill station. It is mainly known because Gandhiji  once spent a few weeks there and was delighted with the scenery and ambience. There is now a Gandhi Ashram there as well as a Lakshmi Ashram, a residential school for girls. There are […]

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