Programmes · Running
Books in our languages
Picture books written, illustrated and printed in Assamese, Mising and Bodo, and released under an open licence.
- Who it is for
- Young readers who don't find their language on a shelf
- Where
- Written in workshops in Guwahati, Majuli and Kokrajhar
- Running since
- 2014
- Spent on it in 2025-26
- ₹34,90,000
- For CSR: Schedule VII
- (ii) Promoting education, including special education among children
- Programme lead
- Rumi Pegu, editor (sample person)
Who funds it
- CSR: Books in Mising and Bodo (see CSR partnerships)
- Donations from people in India
How it works
A workshop
Writers and illustrators who speak the language, with librarians who know what children borrow.
Tested in the libraries
Drafts are read aloud in three libraries before printing.
Printed, and given away
Copies to every library; the files under a CC BY 4.0 licence for anyone to reprint.
Counted
What we can count
64
picture books published, all under CC BY 4.0
2014 to 2026 · Our publications list
19,200
copies printed
2025-26 · Printers' invoices in the audited accounts
₹180
to print one copy, writing and illustration included
2025-26 · Books spending ÷ copies printed
Stories
From this programme
Books in our languages · March 2026
A fish in Mising
A story told at a workshop became the first picture book many children had seen in their own language.
A grandmother in Dhemaji district who told a story at a workshop