Videha Digital Library: A Boon for People Fond of Reading and Studying

Detailed description

Kalpana Jha approaches the digital library through readers’ practical difficulties: obtaining books, finding space, paying for them and locating material suited to their interests. She values free access to rare literature, research and examination resources. Her appreciation includes concrete repairs: broken links, disordered pages and the need for alphabetical arrangements of titles and authors. Accessibility here means a collection that can actually be navigated and read.

This is a signed contribution in the volume’s Gajendra Thakur, Videha and the wider literary-digital project strand. The page preserves the contributor’s attribution, the normalized chapter identity, the English-edition locator, and the paired Maithili/English repository manifestations so that the critical argument can be read in its book context rather than as an isolated quotation.

Source edition and provenance

Repository locator: ENGLISH_PREETI_KARAN_SETU_BANHAL.pdf · PDF pp. 131–144 ↗

SHA-256: 8ec2f848e09d3b8db138698f45980d1b4a09700e9b75c4c651143fb51300b1f1

Paired Maithili edition: PREETI_KARAN_SETU_BANHAL.pdf ↗