Illustration/Uday Mohite

In the 1990s, before one could define one's political position with the particular brittle confidence the Internet offers, like many young people I, too, was always searching for ways to improve myself, to expand my political and philosophical horizons. There are few things in our educational system and in our media that help us contextualise ongoing social and political events. In a time before the Internet, for many of us seeking to make sense of the world, the place that helped us was the indie library.