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Raid At Anna Centenary Library

Headline via Deccan Chronicle · first report 10 Nov, 02:39 IST, latest 10 Nov, 18:36 IST

The Taj Mahal, Agra
Representational image · The Taj Mahal, Agra · Vyacheslav Argenberg / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

What we know

2 independent news organisations have reported this story. The first report we saw came from Deccan Chronicle at 10 Nov, 02:39 IST; the latest is from The Hindu at 10 Nov, 18:36 IST. Rational Times has not independently confirmed the details: read each report through the links below.

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Reported by2 news organisations
First report10 Nov, 02:39 IST
Latest report10 Nov, 18:36 IST
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The issue was flagged by award-winning Tamil writer Perumal Murugan who visited the library in Coimbatore recently and pointed to issues relating to price, quality and authenticity of content in some books.

Quoted from the newsrooms’ own feeds, with their names and links. Rational Times has not independently confirmed the details.

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