The Krishnamurti Foundation India has recently set up a vast network of more than 1300 public and university libraries throughout the Indian subcontinent (India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Bangladesh) that are equipped with some of Krishnamurti’s most celebrated works in English and translations in the regional languages. This has been done in keeping with Krishnamurti’s fervent wish that the Foundations need to do what they can to ‘reach the teachings to all’.
The Network’s blueprint was crafted and executed by a small, dynamic team of professionals working out of a provisional administrative base in Kolkata in east India. Braving blistering summers, monsoon fury, primitive communication networks, and entanglements with insurgents, terrorists and police arrests, the team set up in a short span of 18 months, what is probably the largest and densest network of public-access facilities equipped with the Teachings in the most culturally complex region of the world.
True to Krishnamurti’s wish that inspired the project, choice titles of his works in English and the regional languages are now available to any interested person within a short travel span, at prominent public libraries in the countries of the Indian subcontinent. Metros, cities, district headquarters, centers of pilgrimage, university towns, and prosperous industrial and commercial centres form the ‘hubs’ in this expansive network.
the true value of the exercise is realized only in the ‘activation’ of the network, posters in English and the regional languages are displayed in every library to introduce visitors to the significance of Krishnamurti and to his works placed there. In addition, a free-distribution address directory of the entire network is available throughout the network to guide those interested to the nearest facility.