Bengali books online free reading for free#

Some of the relicensed works include the Kannada Vishwakosha brought out by University of Mysore. This allows anyone to edit or make a copy of the work, making it reusable,вЂќ said Panigrahi. вЂњMost of these are books in the public domain or the ones relicensed with Creative Commons licences. The content ranges from religious texts such as Ramayan and Bible to first-ever printed literary works. Sanskrit, Tamil, Kannada, Oriya, Marathi, Gujarati and Assamese libraries also getting bigger. While Telugu has 29,039 pages, Bengali has around 11,000. Malayalam has 26,332 pages, including around 200 of the seminal books in the language. The growth has been tremendous in Indian language content creation, especially when it comes to setting up Wikisources, said A Ravishankar, programme director at the Wikimedia India chapter. As Wikipedians come together in Bengaluru on Sunday to celebrate 15 years of editing and curating the encyclopedia in India, more such stories will be told. Most of us would like to see them online,вЂќ said Subhashish Panigrahi, Wikipedian and programme officer at the Centre for Internet and Society. вЂњThese are the books that we grow up with and connect emotionally. Indian versions of Wikisource have more than 1 lakh pages of classic epics, philosophical tracts, and novels and poems in 10 languages. Actions speak louder than words when it comes to preserving books in regional languages.

Bengali books online free reading for free#

Now, the entire work is available for free at Odia Wikisource. Nasim Ali returned to Wikipedia editing only because fellow Odias were reaching out on social media to help upload the 13-volume Bhagavata Mahapuranam. He scanned it promptly and volunteers uploaded the text on to Malayalam Wikisource, one of the free online libraries run by Wikipedia. Finally, his quest ended at Dharmaram College library in Bengaluru as Alex got hold of a copy of the first-ever printed book in Malayalam.

BENGALURU: It was a hunt that took Shiju Alex to many places.