India, Aug. 12 -- "There are many little ways to enrich a child's world. Joy of reading is the best of them."

India's education discourse has, for long, centred on access - access to schools, to textbooks, to digital infrastructure. These are critical, but as we stand at the threshold of a new phase in Indian education, an equally urgent question that confronts us is:

Are we raising a generation that reads?

It is this question - deceptively simple, consequential in its implications - that gave birth to the Rashtriya e-Pustakalaya (ReP) or the National Digital Library. The platform was conceived not merely as a digital archive, but as a living effort to enrich India's reading culture from within the home, the school and the community. T...