BBC News reports that a mob of angry protestors in the Indian state of Manipur set fire to a library in a nationalistic fury of alphabet envy:

Officials of a prestigious library in India’s north-eastern state of Manipur say nearly 145,000 books have been destroyed in an arson attack….

Officials say many of Manipur’s most ancient texts were among the books destroyed by the fire.

The arsonists want the Mayek script to replace Bengali script in the state.

(via BF Insider List)