Library spruced up for Vice-President’s visit
The Hindu
The Ram Mohan Dharma Pustaka Bhandagaram, popular as Ram Mohan Library, is all spruced up to welcome the Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu, here on Sunday. The Vice-President is scheduled to visit the
The Ram Mohan Dharma Pustaka Bhandagaram, popular as Ram Mohan Library, is all spruced up to welcome the Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu, here on Sunday.
The Vice-President is scheduled to visit the more than century-old library near Bandar Locks on Mahatma Gandhi Road and go around the two-storied building. “He will unveil a Bharat Matha statue and pay tributes to her,” said Ch. Koteswara Rao, president of the library.
Built in 1911, the library is a piece of history, equipped with works of the authors of the 18th and 19th centuries. It has a large collection of books related to Independence, history, science, politics and other genres in Telugu, English and Sanskrit, in addition to a few Hindi classics.
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