Tibetan free library opens doors to readers in India, with help from Boing Boing readers

Editor's note: Here's an inspiring update on a cool project some friends of ours are doing in India. About a year ago, Boing Boing readers began contributing to help the Tibetan exile community in Mundgod, India build the region's first free Tibetan public library, with the support of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Shiwatso Library is now open for reading! We have visitors checking out books from the Library and also coming to read, says Phuntsok Dorjee, who is one of the organizers, and was raised in one of the refugee settlements there.

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