Gnanalaya is a treasure trove of research papers and books. It contains more than 25,000 titles in English and 90,000 titles in Tamil. It has a large collection of rare first editions of Tamil books including Bharathi’s Swadeshi Geethangal, published in 1908, and Bharathidasan’s anthology of poems, published in 1930, and Veeramamunivar’ s Charthuragarathi, published in 1848…

Started with the aim of bringing generations of children closer to stories from Indian mythologies, Amar Chitra Katha has been the late Anant Pai’s greatest creation. The ‘father of Indian comics’ began his career as a journalist in Times of India newspaper but went on to start his own comic series in 1967…