Volunteer-run, makeshift libraries are popping up at Indian protest sites.

This week, the ongoing protests in India in response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s controversial new citizenship law, which discriminates against Indian Muslims, have intensified and turned violent. But one bright spot is the fact that, as Maroosha Muzaffar reports at Ozy, some volunteers are setting up makeshift libraries at protest sites, with books donated […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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