A library where humans double as books

Human Library project brings together people from all walks of life to interact with 'talking books'

Over the past one year, Hyderabad-based theatre director Akram Feroze has repeated a particular story more times than he can count. Every time he begins narrating this story, he gauges his audience sitting across the table carefully. Feroze might tweak his style, but his story never strays from the truth.

Two years ago, Feroze set out on an ambitious plan: to hitch-hike and cover over 10,000 km along the villages on India’s borders. “Kutch to Kolkata,” he called it. The goal was to interact with people in border towns and talk to them about a “world without borders”.

But weeks