Uma Mahadevan Dasgupta

Sports injury, facial reconstructive surgery, near-total loss of vision in one eye... seven months later, the 16yo ran his second 10k today. Teenagers will teenage! 🌷🌱 #resilience

"If I cannot dwell anywhere, let me then stay nowhere, in this world brief as a grass hut." ― Monk Saigyo (西行) (image: rain in Omiya by Hasui Kawase)

This is so beautiful and affirming! 🌷🌿📚 Learning to write the numbers in the rural public library. #communityoflearning #publiclibrariesforall

Transfers by counselling initiated this year, an important milestone in @rdprgok bureaucracy.

Many thanks to @prathambooks for gifting 179 STEM library kits, each consisting of 100 children’s books, to 179 rural public libraries of @rdprgok. 🌷🌿📚#scienceinlibraries

Many thanks to Azim Premji Foundation for hosting weekly orientations for batches of rural librarians in child-friendly library activities at their Gandhi Bazaar library. Librarians can be helpful guides on the learning journeys of children. #publiclibrariesforall

Rural public libraries are community spaces, for interaction and inclusion across all ages. There will be many games of chess in the rural public library this weekend & every weekend.🌷🌿📚♟️#publiclibrariesfor all

Excellent meeting with @IDIALaw today to discuss how we can work together to help rural kids from disadvantaged backgrounds prepare for careers in law. Planning to start in 25 rural libraries in the pilot. Look forward to this initiative!

How delightful: bright young girls in the rural public library working on a project to apply for the INSPIRE awards! Love it! #scienceinlibraries #innovation #publiclibrariesforall @JahnaviPhalkey @SciGalleryBlr @fiddlingstars @TeamFoldscope @PrakashLab @kvijayraghavan

“The only thing you absolutely need to know is the location of the library.” - Albert Einstein. It’s cool to read with friends in the rural public libraries. 🌷🌿📚

Whatever your age, it’s cool to read the daily newspaper in the rural public library. Stay informed. #publiclibrariesforall

Everything that goes up on the walls of the rural public library, including posters & murals, is of interest to curious kids! Here, kids look at a poster about birds & their habitat.🌷🌿📚#publiclibrariesforall

Thirumandhiram - 8.8.21. "When you see the toy-elephant, you don't see the wood" Blog : oldtamilpoetry.com/2018/03/23/thi…

This week’s workshop on the Karnataka inclusive livelihoods program.

Signing in at the rural public library. 🌷🌿📚#kidsinlibraries

First grader signing in at the rural public library. Well done kiddo! First step to becoming a strong reader! 🌷🌿📚#publiclibrariesforall

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go!” - Dr Seuss. #publiclibrariesforall #kidsinlibraries #picturebooks 🌷🌿📚

Rural public libraries buzzing with kids’ activities.

रहना नहिं देस बिराना है। यह संसार कागद की पुड़िया,बूँद पड़े घुल जाना है। यह संसार काँट की बाड़ी,उलझ-पुलझ मरि जाना है। यह संसार झाड़ औ झाँखर,आग लगे बरि जाना है। कहत कबीर सुनो भाई साधो,सतगुरु नाम ठिकाना है - किशोरी ताई की अप्रतिम प्रस्तुति सौ- @DDNational @YRDeshmukh @hvgoenka