Writing and Reading Fiction
Goa University’s VRPP program under the Kavivarya Bakibaab Borkar Chair in Comparative Literature provided me a most wonderful opportunity to participate in Githa Hariharan’s Course , ‘Compressing the world: Reading and Writing Short Fiction‘. So many threads of learning and memory were evoked and my responsibility to write better, share more powerfully and use the […]
My stitching story
Written by Deepali One fine summer evening as we wrapped up our stitching in the park in Panjim garden day, I met Eleanor Veigas, a textile artist who is now based in South Goa. Eleanor shared the Banyan Tree Stitching project which was begun with Bookworm around 1. 5 years ago and now led by […]
I speak of rivers on a 10th Anniversary
Bookworm is 10 years old this September. Like a river, I started at a source with my erstwhile partner Elaine, in 2005 in St. Inez, Panaji and now find I am flowing alone into multiple terrains, but through this journey, the source is the same. A place where children learn to love books ! The […]
10th Birthday Party
Written by Deepali It is the 10th year of this wonderfully bookish place called Bookworm and its going to be a year long celebration to commemorate the birth and growing up years of this baby. We have kicked off the celebrations with our Birthday Blast Party for the Preschoolers last week. And what a blast […]
A New LiS School – Mae-de-Deus, Corjuem
Written by Flavia LiS has been in Aldona since June 2012, but June 2015 brought some shocks. We were not able to continue our sessions in the first LiS school to dedicate a room to the library program, Auxilium Carona, due to circumstances beyond our control. Soon after that, another school in Aldona, STGPS informed […]
Bookworm Events Calendar – September 2015
My first month with Bookworm
Written by Prerana It’s been one month since I’ve been a part of Bookworm, and honestly it’s one of the most remarkable experiences I’ve had so far. I remember the afternoons I used to spend procrastinating and lazing around, whiling away my time like the lazy log I sometimes am, but Bookworm changed all of […]
A Workshop on Compressing the World: Reading and Writing Short Fiction
September 4, 2015: “Reading the Nation through Short Fiction”, talk at the International Centre, Donapaula – 4:30 to 5:30 PM September 11, 2015: “Making Dreams Travel — Writing Women’s Lives, Re-writing the Nation”, talk at Institute Menezes Braganza, Panaji – 4:30 to 5:30 PM September 12, 2015: “Reading the Nation through Fiction”, talk at […]
Wish comes true…
Written by Melcom I still remember that day when one of the St. Inez boys asked me “Sir! When are you going to take us to your library …we had been there once so now we wish to go again”. In my mind I was so happy to know that the children had an urge […]
Watching them watching themselves
Eight sessions later, Alia Sinha engineered a miracle with a group ( 42 to be precise) of boys who find themselves in Std. 4 in St. Thomas Boys Primary School and suddenly realise that they are the seniors in a tiny primary school building. Alia was assigned a production which she accomplished with characteristic passion, […]