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Readers, librarians and families, in their own words where they chose to give them.

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  • An open blue tin trunk of books wrapped in plastic on the plank floor of a country boat, with a sandbank in the river behind

    The boat library · September 2026

    The boat came instead

    In July the river took the path to her library. For seven weeks the boat brought the books.

    A girl of 14 on a char near Majuli. Name changed.

  • Rows of wet rubber sandals on the bamboo steps outside the open door of a village library in the rain

    Reading camps in the flood season · August 2026

    Eleven pairs of sandals at the door

    The school closed for the flood on the first of July. The reading camp opened on the third.

    A librarian in Morigaon district, 31

  • A hand-ruled borrowing register open on a bamboo mat beside a brass lantern and two library cards

    Training librarians · June 2026

    A register in her own hand

    She finished school in the village and became its librarian. Now she trains new ones.

    A village librarian in Dibrugarh district, 22. Name changed.

  • Watercolour pages of a river, a fish and a boat drying on a string above a workshop table with a bone folder and thread

    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