<p>The books in the store of the Kannada and culture department here is languishing due to the apathy of the officials and lack of publicity.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The store promoted by the department to popularise the habit of reading Kannada books and make available good literature to the readers economically is housed in a single, dingy room.<br /><br />It has only turned into a godown, with accumulated dust over several years. Nobody is aware of the store located on a small gully on second cross in Ashok Nagar behind the office of the employees state insurance corporation.<br /><br />The books contain valuable literature of the Champu, Vachana, Navodaya, Navya, Pragathisheela, Dalitha, Bandaya, etc eras and movements encompassing all issues including politics.<br /><br />The writers of the books are all giants in their own right like Pampa, Ranna, Janna, Basavanna, Akkamahadevi, B M Srikantaiah, Thi Nam Sri, Mahatma Gandhi, B R Ambedkar, Kuvempu, K S Narasimhaswamy, D V Gundappa, Triveni, Pu Thi Narasimhachar, U R Ananthamurthy, G S Shivarudrappa, Gopalakrishna Adiga and S Nijalingappa.<br /><br /> New books are added to the store with almost nil sales as people are not aware of the facility available to good books at reasonable discounted rates.<br /><br />A majority of the books have become food for silver fish and termites and decomposing. The authorities concerned have not even cared to dust the books once in a year.<br /></p>
<p>The books in the store of the Kannada and culture department here is languishing due to the apathy of the officials and lack of publicity.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The store promoted by the department to popularise the habit of reading Kannada books and make available good literature to the readers economically is housed in a single, dingy room.<br /><br />It has only turned into a godown, with accumulated dust over several years. Nobody is aware of the store located on a small gully on second cross in Ashok Nagar behind the office of the employees state insurance corporation.<br /><br />The books contain valuable literature of the Champu, Vachana, Navodaya, Navya, Pragathisheela, Dalitha, Bandaya, etc eras and movements encompassing all issues including politics.<br /><br />The writers of the books are all giants in their own right like Pampa, Ranna, Janna, Basavanna, Akkamahadevi, B M Srikantaiah, Thi Nam Sri, Mahatma Gandhi, B R Ambedkar, Kuvempu, K S Narasimhaswamy, D V Gundappa, Triveni, Pu Thi Narasimhachar, U R Ananthamurthy, G S Shivarudrappa, Gopalakrishna Adiga and S Nijalingappa.<br /><br /> New books are added to the store with almost nil sales as people are not aware of the facility available to good books at reasonable discounted rates.<br /><br />A majority of the books have become food for silver fish and termites and decomposing. The authorities concerned have not even cared to dust the books once in a year.<br /></p>
