IMLD 2018

International Mother Language days was planned to celebrate first time on 2018. However, due to several reasons, this was not celebrated on the 21st of February, but was clubbed with IISc annual festival Spectrum, in collaboration with Ranade Library.

The then Ranade Library convenor wrote in IISc Connect magazine, "Ranade Library is a hub for different cultures from across the country, with more than 8000 books in various languages. We thought this linguistic diversity should be celebrated. So, in one of our meetings, we decided to commemorate International Mother Language Day, which falls on 21 February. It was in another such meeting that the idea of displaying various scripts came up. However, because of a shortage of funds, we were unable to organise it on 21 February as we had planned. But the idea of displaying scripts became a reality when the Gymkhana asked Ranade Library to do something for Spectrum 2018, the annual sports, literary and cultural meet of IISc. "