However, financial hardship has forced the retired school teacher into just such a situation. On October 11, Gokul took out a newspaper ad for the sale of his personal library. He is offering to sell 2,000 books for Tk15 lakh, and a number of magazines for Tk10 lakh. How the library beganGokul started the book collection, which would grow into an impressive library, when he was just a 10th grader, in 1972. The library is currently located at Dhanmondi in Dhaka, where Gokul had moved to in 1992.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 15, 2019 18:22 UTC