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, […]
Picture Books: Who are they for ?
Update: For those you missed the talk, you can listen to the same here. Thanks to Frederick Noronha for recording and uploading. I love Picture Books so it was fitting for me to use the space created by the Design Centre, Porvorim for me to talk about them. I loved that there was an audience […]
A reader is born
I remember so vividly a day in the Chimbel library room where I was reading with a child whilst the whole room was busy and bustling with raised voices, quiet chatter, intoned hum of independent reading, a slim frame crowded the door. I looked up into the eyes of a distinctly curious boy who immediately […]
The Boy & Dragon Stories and Other Tales
Suniti Namjoshi is a writer who respects her readers and the only fitting ‘return gift’ is to respect her right back by reading everything she writes ! This slim, almost gentle looking book is packed with little and big thoughts that set you – thinking ! A Boy and A Dragon and you may immediately […]
International Network of Emerging Library Innovators
Bookworm is honoured to have Niju Mohan selected for International Network of Emerging Library Innovators along with others for a fellowship program. The International Network of Emerging Library Innovators (INELI) is the global library leadership capacity building programme supported by the Global Libraries Initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Photo courtesy: mssrf.org
Bookworms full circle
It is rather atypical to have full circle moments and yet, for those of us who choose to work with children and books this is the order of the day ! At the end of this past year I had 2 very special such moments. Advay Burte all of 11 years was a Bookworm member […]
Library Educators Workshop – Kalike, Karnataka
Perhaps the most fulfilling aspect of my work in Bookworm is that I get to share our experiences in a learning environment with other people. I was in Yadgir District in North East Karnataka doing a workshop for 50 ‘animators’ who will open library rooms in 50 Government schools and the joy of sharing books, […]
I have girls !
In my very own family, I am surrounded by boys. On a recent Bookworm trip to Mumbai I was surrounded by girls. For 6 days, experiences of a unique kind for me clouded my heart and soul and I am grateful. Krupa, of the happy chatter, bubbling kind of energy smiled with my heart beat […]