We have filed a public interest litigation writ The night petition before the Hon’ble High Court of Delhi after the government objected to our efforts. My co-petitioners are Dr. Sinha and my friend Srinivas Kodali. We are represented before the Hon’ble High Court by senior advocates Jawahar Raja and Salman Khurshid and the law firm of Nishith Desai and Associates.
In partnership with Internet Archive? Petrides has amassed a team of librarian partners to create the Universal School Library? a collection of digitized books that can serve as a lending library for those without access to a physical school library.
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School librarians working to curate 15?000 book titles. It’s a whatsapp lead labor-intensive process selecting fiction and non-fiction titles for the core collection? while ensuring diverse viewpoints and voices are represented and included. A beta version of the Universal School Library is now online at and using CDL? the project team will work with states? districts? and schools to fill in where there are gaps. When the Universal School Library is officially launched in 2020? it will encompass all genres and reading levels? and across cultural? college? and career literacy.
I read a lot about Gandhi? I speak about him frequently and learned much from his work. Gandhi is an important part of my life? but with Shamnad it was different. Shamand? more than anybody I ever met? lived his life like Gandhi. He having multiple numbers can lead was a public worker? devoted to justice and equality. He knew a vast number of people? and every person he met? he touched their lives deeply.
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So many years? but he did not let that stop him. I admonished him once when he invited me to speak at the IDIA annual event and he had just flown in the night before from Iran? where he was advising people on intellectual hear b2b marketing Bach property. You should take it easy? I told him. He replied that he wasn’t going to let his illness rule his life? and he never stopped his public work for one minute.
We were exchanging messages on WhatsApp. He had been especially sick of late and had gone on a pilgrimage to Bababundangiri. His last words to me? which I wish to share were.