If a tree falls in the forest and a western journalist isn’t there to hear it, does it make a sound?

On Seamus Heaney’s birthday, my favorite of his poems.

Richly detailed and so insightful! How street level bureaucrats can behave in legalistic or deliberative ways while interpreting & implementing policy, and how that influences outcomes for the poor. Gives so much hope.

‘Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.’

Dramatist, novelist and poet Samuel Beckett was born #OnThisDay in 1906.

Drunk schoolbus driver. No bus attendant. Driver allowed to proceed on route despite parents' objections. Horrific.

Magnifying lens in the rural library for readers with low vision.

Learning through play #libraries

This entitled generation of robots just doesn’t want to work any more

no love, however brief, is wasted

Law student studying in the rural library.

The readers.

Two news items about a day apart.

1. Swiggy's health insurance for their delivery workers is dependent on them meeting targets.

2. Swiggy's corporate workers get additional leave if they have pets.

The readers. #kidsinlibraries

ಗ್ರಾಮ ಪಂಚಾಯಿತಿ ಗ್ರಂಥಾಲಯ ಮತ್ತು ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಮಲಪನಗುಡಿ

The reading circle. Share the learning. #kidsinlibraries

They gamified health insurance for their workers.

105 years on, the spectre of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre still looms large

Aishwarya Khosla

indianexpress.com/article/india/…

Paralympian David Brown becomes the fastest blind runner

In 1949 Picasso offered for the organization of the World Peace Congress, a drawing of a dove which quickly became famous.
🖌️ Pablo Picasso.
'Dove with branches of flowers'.

This kid has written 'ಗಟ್ಟಿ ಓದು' (Read Aloud) across the tree. Reading is indeed the great spreading tree that leads to all sorts of growth and flowering. #kidsinlibraries 🌿

The readers. 🌷🌿🕊