Book Talk: New Pick for January
Dear All, Wish you all a wonderful 2011. We begin 2011 with a book by Kazuo Ishiguro. We’ve chosen his 2005 novel “Never Let Me Go” for this month’s reading and discussion. Here is a short write up about the book, courtesy Wikipedia Never Let Me Go (2005) is a novel by Japanese-born British author […]
2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats. A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed […]
All Things Christmas
Bookworm December Calendar
Cholta Cholta, 21st November
This Sunday 21st Novemeber from 10.00- 12.00 noon, walk with Cholta Cholta on a heritage, nature and architectural trail, Assemble at 9.45 am at The Mint House ( Casa da Moede) opposite G.P.O Panaji. Walk with Pritha Sardessai ( an architect and social researcher) and Sujata Noronha ( educator) and learn about why the square is called the Tobacco Square, what barter trade left and came […]
Mobile Library Plans
Introduction: In 2007 Bookworm ( a community Children’s library) initiated a program called THE BOOK TREASURY – to put books in classrooms. The project began from a felt need expressed by teachers in a remote school about the unavailability of library books for beginner readers. The project now supports close to 24 schools in Goa […]
Our Mobile Library
Bookworm now has a mobile Book Van which will help us take books to government schools across Goa.We will shortly update this space with Bookworm plans for the mobile library and how you can help!
Book Talk: What do we pick?
Dear Book Talkers, Even as some of us still wade through Half of a Yellow Sun and grapple with the world Chimamanda beautifully recreates, we want to begin thinking about our next book. Some of you have remained silent and we attribute this partly also to the choice of book. So, we’d like to throw […]
Book Talk: Half of a Yellow Sun
Here are some questions to make Book Talk discussions richer. Please leave your responses as comments to this post.We urge everyone who is reading, to leave a line or two. Though Ugwu is only thirteen when he begins working as a houseboy for Odenigbo, he is one of the most intelligent and observant characters in […]
Left Foot Forward
A movement workshop for 9 years and over to come explore how their bodies move individually and collectively. Various activities in each session will enable the participants to progressively put together a small dance piece of their own. As the name implies no prior dance knowledge is required. The idea is to enjoy and learn! […]