Bookworm Trust

Critical Conversations: Looking at Children’s Literature in Marathi

As a community of Library Educators our growing responsibility is to facilitate the exchange and engagement of books with readers. For this we need to be deeply and intimately involve with the Collection in the library which will enable us to have conversations with readers to provoke thinking and feeling. This as we know is […]

Library Mentoring Pilot 2024: A Shared Context For Learning

Earlier this year(2025), Bookworm launched the Alums Mentoring Program – an attempt to build, foster and sustain a community of librarians so that library practices grow and deepen. Like all  our programs, this one too birthed because of a felt need on ground, at Bookworm libraries. In 2024, our libraries in Goa were expanding and […]

A Year of Library Travel

Recently, a friend sent me a photograph of a note I had written to her over two decades ago. Overly dramatic and despondent, I complain how my education has alienated me from my immediate world. I end my note with the lines, “I only have a vague idea of who I want to be and […]

When the library screened ‘Chaityabhumi’

Somnath Waghmare’s film, Chaityabhumi, had been popping up on my social media feed for some months. I often paused and eyed the blue-tinged poster with curiosity. I had been piecing together bits of information from a dozen tweets – the documentary film was screened at Columbia University; Somnath was a research scholar at TISS, Mumbai; […]