Within the Dhanmondi lake, you need to perhaps look a change – shrimp wooden packing containers that dangle from the trees.
They look factual worship chook nests. But as a substitute of birds, you’re going to look books neatly stacked interior.
Anyone can grab a book from there and defend shut a shot at a reading session.
There’s one easy rule, even supposing. You’ll want to place the book serve rather than abode after you are completed reading it.
The person within the serve of this extra special initiative is Zakia Rayhana Rupa, who is a book lover herself.
Rupa, a resident of Dhanmondi, launched this micro-library at Dhanmondi Lake Park to promote reading within the busy metropolis.
Impressed by the understanding that of “exiguous free libraries” in Germany, she arrange a wooden bookshelf with a straightforward rule: borrow a book, read it, and return it.
She became impressed after looking at a video on Fb the put she saw bookcases on streets, bus stations, and even in a woodland in Germany.
People were now now not fully reading books, some were additionally donating them.
And Rupa understanding, “If that is probably going in Germany, why now now not in Bangladesh?”
She then determined to arrange identical shrimp bookshelves in Dhaka. Since her dwelling is shut to Dhanmondi Lake, she started from there.
On 16 November, Rupa began with factual one bookcase containing five books by Mahyuddin Mohammad. Now, there are a total of 10 bookcases at various spots all the plan in which thru the lake. Every bookcase contains a vary of books.
Rupa acknowledged on legend of the starting, she has obtained a sizable response from folks. People of all ages who search the advice of with the lake were displaying curiosity. Many read many times, whereas others at the least look thru the books, even within the event that they don’t read them.
Rupa has achieve up a look below each bookcase, which reads, “Read books from right here, and after reading, please return them moderately to the bookcase. Books can now now not be taken dwelling.”
She additionally urged folks to donate books.
Lamia Islam Chhoa became reading a book from regarded as one of the critical cases.
“I am so happy, I will be able to now now not even describe it. I attain to stroll by the lake each day. Even supposing it be factual for 10 minutes, I could read a book. Even supposing I don’t read, I in actuality feel appropriate factual being shut to those wonderful books,” acknowledged Chhoa.
The shrimp bookcases placing from the trees are attracting various consideration.
Rupa explained that the procedure for making shrimp bookcases is that it makes books with out concerns accessible to folks.
“I will be able to put of abode a bookcase right interior folks’s attain. Every case holds 7–8 books. Since they are shrimp, many will likely be positioned in a single put. Wherever folks sit down, I will be able to put of abode one there so that anyone can attain out and earn a book to read,” acknowledged Rupa.
Amongst many impressed by Rupa’s initiative, Kazi Mohammad Numan, a scholar at Dhaka Faculty, precipitated 10 books from his deepest series in an effort to add to the bookcase.
“Handiest the predominant bookcase and books were funded by me. Since then, the total other bookcases and books were donated by folks. One person donated 117 books from their grandmother, one more sent spherical 20 books, and anyone else even couriered books. Right here is all happening with everyone’s make stronger,” she acknowledged.
Rupa has selected books that will perhaps perhaps positively influence folks’s psychological construction, leaving out novels, tales, and poetry. She has included works by authors worship Rabindranath Tagore, Humayun Azad, and Ahmed Sofa.
Rupa acknowledged, “Compared to our population, the series of libraries in our country is extremely low. In this congested metropolis, folks have not got the psychological peace to read books after reaching a library. I understanding, if books will likely be brought closer to folks, they’re going to read them. Even those that’re now now not dilapidated to reading will become when they look others reading.”
Rupa talked about that many participants like proven curiosity in her venture. “Everyone has taken it so positively, sharing it with enthusiasm.”
Some like even expressed curiosity in working along with her. Rupa acknowledged, “It be now now not critical to be a part of me. You presumably can commence your procure initiative in your local put.”
On a unhurried afternoon, Abdullah Al Mamun became sitting on a bench by the lake, reading the Bengali translation of Satoshi Yagisawa’s “Days at the Morisaki Bookstore”.
He acknowledged, “An particular person lives on thru their deeds. Even when the person within the serve of this initiative isn’t any longer spherical, anyone could perhaps perhaps keep in mind her and scream, she became the one who first positioned a bookcase at Dhanmondi Lake. And I thank her for this.”
