Bangla Library

[Pernilla Gendron]

Ina conversation with three core members of the library team, Jaideep Das (the founder), Anirban Ghosh and Debasish Bose, it became clear that developing a constant, permanent platform to cultivate the intellectual heritage of Bengal in the Bengali language was much needed. Cultural community events preserve the heritage but are typically festive, one-time events.

The Dishari Foundation, a nonprofit founded in 2014 by Das, promotes Bengali language outside India and supports low-income communities in India and Bangladesh. The Foundation has been running a successful Bangla school that teaches the language to children and the wider community.

The increase in the number of Bengali-speaking people in the Bay Area, the enthusiastic response from the community, the experience of teaching the Bengali language, a closely knit group of volunteers who believed in the vision for the library, a very successful fundraising campaign and a free office space for the library donated by a close friend who, one must mention, does not speak or read Bengali, were all the different avenues that came together to make the inauguration event on Feb. 26 possible.

Between fundraising in November 2021 and the inauguration in February 2022, more than 500 books, including rare author-signed copies, were donated to the library. At the time of writing this story, more books have arrived from the community in the Bay Area and other parts of the United States. Friends and family members in Kolkata have shipped books through March and April.

All of them hope that more people will ask for books, continue to read, and the library will join hands with them to provide what they need. If readers in other regional languages of India want to talk to them or work with the founders, they can be reached at dishari...@gmail.com.

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