With the aim to bring some of the oldest books back to life, the National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM) has initiated an ambitious project to digitise thousands of manuscripts across the country, some of which date back to the 15th century.

Written in Sanskrit, Prakrit, Persian and some other old Indian languages, the idea is to preserve the cultural heritage of India in an electronic from so that it is available at a click of a button. Until now, the NMM has covered many states and achieved a target of digitising one crore manuscripts. It is also proposing to soon start a special digital library dedicated to manuscripts.