Thoughtless Vandalism: Bihar's Heritage Urdu Library Ransacked, Thousands Of Books Thrown In Ganga River

Thousands of precious old Urdu books from a library in the Bihar district of Munger were thrown into the river Ganga in an incident that the district administration says was an attempt by a local businessman to encroach on the heritage building built to commemorate the massive earthquake that devastated Bihar in 1934.

“The library had more than 12,000 Urdu books and most of them belonged to pre-Independence days,” Mohammad Farooq, the library secretary, told INNLIVE over the phone.