![]() ![]() Right after India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi recommended the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, as it contains a lot of messages for a common person, a lady walked up to and asked if she could read it in Marathi. Subhashish Panigrahi (SP): Could you share your ideas of opening these invaluable books for Wikisource? How they are going to be useful for the online readers to learn about the Peshwas?Īvinash Chaphekar (AC): These books are of historical importance and contain information that needs to reach more people they cover topics that are rarely covered well anywhere else. By Abhinavgarule, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Avinash Chaphekar reading at Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha. We reached out to Avinash Chaphekar, the joint secretary of the organization, to know more about the state of book publication and readership.ĭr. Some of the major books donated are Peshwa Rojnishi (diary of Peshwa), Benjamin Franklin Charitra ( The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin), Kekavali, S M Paranjape Charitra (autobiography), Letters Exchanged between the Sanstha and the British Government, Shinde Gharanyacha Padmamay Itihas (manuscript), and Marathwadyatil Arvachin Marathi Vangmay (modern Marathi literature from Marathwada, a region in Maharashtra) are some of the popular books read by Marathi speakers that are going to be part of the books donated by the organization. While meeting the authors, Wikimedians also approached them to relicense some of their works under Creative Commons licenses so that they could be digitized on Wikisource and/or enrich Wikipedia-and some of the authors expressed a good deal of interest in opening up their books for Wikisource. Autographs of eighteen notable writers who received awards from Sanstha for different genres of writings were collected for uploading to the Wikipedia pages about them. Many active and new Marathi Wikimedians were present at the exhibition stall along with Abhinav Garule from the CIS-A2K program to share the incredible work Marathi Wikipedia and Wikimedia community at large are doing. ![]() Around 600 people visited the stall and learned about the news of MGS’s book donation. Reading online marathi books archive#Being an important archive for the preservation of many hundreds of years old manuscripts and historical artifacts from the Peshwa era, the institution is open to public for study and research.ĭuring the four-day anniversary celebration, the Centre for Internet Society’s Access to Knowledge program (CIS-A2K)-an organization that supports the Wikimedia movement in India-opened a Wikipedia stall there where Marathi Wikimedians were present. ![]() MGS is a non-profit organization working for the preservation of Maharashtra’s linguistic and cultural heritage. Reading online marathi books license#By मालोजीराव, freely licensed under Public Domain.Īs the Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha (MGS) celebrated its 121st anniversary recently, the organization re-licensed 1000 books under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license so that the books could be digitized and be made available on the Marathi Wikisource for millions of Marathi readers. Painting obtained from Golkonda fort, Telengana, India and preserved in British Museum, London. Portrait of Shivaji of Maratha empire who founded the Peshwa designation. ![]()
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