Blue Sattai Maran@tamiltalkies
Anke's Pustak Mane - The world’s largest free-access library with 2M+ books in 20 languages, rare manuscripts, documents from the Mysore dynasty, and newspapers dating back to the 1800s.
'Books are my breath. It is my duty to preserve them for the next generation'.. Anke (age 75) says.
Nearly 80% of his salary, his retirement pension of ₹40–45 lakh, and even his house and plots in Mysuru - all of it went into building the library.
Today.. He doesn’t just run the library..he lives inside it with his wife. Because for him, books were never a hobby. They were a responsibility.
This Republic Day, India honoured him with the Padma Shri.
- The Better India.
#Anke #PustakMane #Padmashri2026