Aizawl: If you’re in Aizawl, especially at Mission Vengthlang locality, chances are that you will come across a small bookshelf hung up in the boundary wall of a house belonging to eminent journalist and writer Lalhruaitluanga Chawngte.

Chawngte would like to call it his ‘Little Library’, where anyone can come and pick up a book, read it and keep it in the bookshelf again. If anyone wants to borrow it can do so and read it at home, before returning it to the ‘library’.

Little Library was set up by Chawngte in memory of his late father, Rev C Lianhmingthanga.

Speaking with EastMojo, Chawngte said, “I had heard about the concept of a roadside library. Although I was sceptical and nervous at first, I really wanted to make a valuable contribution to my society. I felt this was the best way I could contribute. So, on the birthday of my late father, which was November 4, I started this ‘Little Library’ in front of our house at Mission Vengthlang.”