more-inIndian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Taranjit Singh Sandhu handed over as many as 16,000 books to the iconic Jaffna public library on Thursday. The collection will be kept at the ‘India Corner’ in the library, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated during his maiden visit in 2015. “The titles cover topics ranging from culture, literature, philosophy, politics to science,” Chief Librarian Suganthy Sadasivamoorthy told The Hindu on Friday. The new books, mostly in Tamil, will add to the library’s existing collection of nearly 1,00,000 books sourced over the last three decades. A Thanjavur-based organisation, the Karanthai Tamil Sangam, collected the books for donation to the library.

Source: The Hindu June 30, 2017 15:56 UTC