A reading room of one’s own
Hindustan TimesAround 30 people huddle over large wooden tables in a dimly lit hall near crumbling Golcha Cinema in the heart of old Delhi. Anand Saxena, 24, an IAS aspirant and a resident of Mayur Vihar Phase-2, spends about 7 hours every day in the first floor reading room —a huge, airy hall-—in the local Community Center surrounded by DDA flats. “Unlike a typical library, here I feel at home.” “There should be more reading rooms where people can read without membership cards,” says Mahipal, 23, who is preparing for his PGT entrance examination. “They come here to catch up on the news during lunch break," says Amit Pawar, a staff member at the reading room. These community reading rooms are emerging as popular places for academic pursuits in a city where few can afford private study spaces.
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