VADODARA: When the recent rain fury brought down a part of his over a century-old ancestral home, he did not think twice before deciding to convert the remaining portion of the building into a community centre.
Pravin Maripelly
,
a former artist from MS University and a yoga enthusiast
,
converted part of his ancestral house into a library
and reading room for the people of his village back in his home state of Telangana.
Maripelly, who is currently pursuing another post-graduate degree in fine arts in four-dimension from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, virtually inaugurated the
library
on Saturday from the USA.
“I was thinking about what I can do about the home. That is when I realized that there is no reading habit in the village, so why not turn the remaining structure into a library and reading room,” said Maripelly. The back portion of the house which had collapsed was completely brought down and the front building was renovated. Its interiors were changed to make it suitable for a reading room. Maripelly also drew motivation from American artists Rick Lowe’s Row Houses and Theaster Gates’s The Dorchester social art projects.
Maripelly then ordered books of genres and subjects including literature and fiction, history, culture, economics, spirituality, politics, art, biographies among others in Telugu, Hindi and English languages.
“There are around 190 books right now and the number will keep on increasing,” he said. In near future, Maripelly also plans to connect the library globally enabling online lectures, workshops and talks by people from across the world on different topics.
While Maripelly is abroad, his cousins and a former teacher have volunteered to manage the library.
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