A Rainforest in Chimbel
A weekend library session was scheduled into my day. I would be at our community library room in Chimbel and it would be weeks since I was there, so I was excited and curious to experience the sessions we do at the library through our library educators. The story chosen was The Great Kapok Tree, […]
Booktalking with technology
I met the students and faculty of Hongirana School for Excellence on a Library Audit visit late last year. Hongirana School is situated close to Sagar town and has the biodiversity of the Western Ghats with the school surrounded by nature. Within this school, rests a beautiful library building that our team had the joy […]
Special Delivery
Yes, we are a library and yes we receive boxes of books. Yes, this is the fund raising month and yes, boxes of stuff are being left at the library doorstep for the Jumble but a few days back a delivery van pulled up. Many eyes lifted from screen, pages of books and faces and […]
Partnering with teachers
In our LiS program, we realise that the impact and culture of reading can only be strengthened by the rich community of teachers who inhabit a school. We were honored to have two of our LiS school partners encourage their teachers to attend an interactive session at Bookworm. The morning was filled with exploring, reading, […]
When Bholu came Back
Every month, unfailingly we receive a pack of new books that are published by Tulika. Every month there is a scramble to get to the pack first and explore the new books. Every month these new books are discussed at our meetings; comparing, contrasting, commenting and considering on how we will use them, whom we […]
Act Out!
Act Out, a twelve week acting workshop by Director Rajyashree Dutt concluded yesterday at Bookworm with the group performing two plays; Narahari Das and Captain Bumble. As Bookworm brings the curtain down on Act Out for 2016, we are extremely grateful to Raj… or Aunty Raj as the children call her for bringing drama to […]
The Joy of Writing Well … ah well !
We began this June with a determination that we must provide opportunity within Bookworm for readers who are interested in the craft of writing. We know that this connection between reading and writing is not as automatic as we tend to believe and does not happen naturally. What is natural and must be celebrated is […]
Reflections from participants
As we concluded Bookworm’s first Seminar with Benedito Ferrao, ‘Reading the Remanants of Portuguese India’ we realised we were better readers than when we began. Thanks in no small measure to the selection of texts, the dialogue, the conversations and the discussions left many of us thinking, reflecting and even wondering – as all good […]
Play Reading
Dear Friends September 1st, 2016 we invite you to Bookworm to read the script of … The characters are interesting The dialogue in the first act of the play has been hailed by some critics as some of the greatest in all of the American theatre. The play examines the breakdown of the marriage […]
World Poetry Day Celebrations
The past few months we have been exploring Poetry at Bookworm. For brief moments of time, during our weekly team meetings, we suspend everything to allow words, line by line to unfold and overtake our senses. We seep ourselves into the poem being read, asking sometimes for it to be read again, or passed around, […]