Bookworm Trust

I love cats

Written by Krupa I love cats. No, that is not the title of a book, but a fact. I love cats. So when a blog writing assignment was needed, Ma’am suggested that I write a blog post on books which have cats in it. Sounds funny but I gladly accepted this task and I enjoyed […]

Ten years of cultivating the reading habit

Bookworm in Taleigao is a charitable trust managed by trustees Dr Lucio Fernandes, Dr Fernando Noronha and Dagmar Peres da Silva that supports reading and spreads the love for books. It has three major areas of focus – the Library, Libraries in Schools and the Mobile Outreach Program. The library and resource centre is stocked […]

Theatre on the Beach

The sea shore is about 3 kms from Bookworm. We drive past everyday, sometimes more than twice a day and have not explored the space for what it can do to our spirit and body. Miramar Beach from Bookworm’s perspective has been left to the bus loads of tourists who make a bee line for […]

The Upside Down Bookworm

Perhaps, all library spaces get sectioned and organised into genres/ categories/ age groups/ quiet and active zones and what not.  Bookworm has been no different, in that, through out time, given the space available we have played around with  organisation and turned upside down, right side up and down again.  We had another topsy turvy […]

New Books ! New Books !

I went book shopping in Delhi with my favourite group – Tibetan Librarians whom I mentor on a Library Empowerment Program for the Tibetan Board of Education ( Government in Exile ).  My colleague and friend Usha Mukunda and I used a book shopping experience as a site for building discernment and gathering fine books […]

The Bookworm Film club screening ‘Trikal’

The Bookworm Film club is thrilled to invite you to our screening of ‘Trikal’ (Past, Present, Future), on Monday, the 12th of October, at 4:00 pm, at the Bookworm Library.Written and directed by Shyam Benegal, ‘Trikal’ (1985) explores the trials of an aristocratic family in Goa, as they struggle with social and political transformation at […]

Keeping Still with Poetry

Now we will count to twelveand we will all keep still. Every outreach session with Bookworm now includes a poetry reading. We  bring the same intensity of experience that we demand from story telling to poetry that also tells stories but more importantly demands of us to feel the stories that flow out of words. […]

Workshop on Puppetry

Written by Deepali The D day had arrived. It was the day when Alia and I were scheduled to present a workshop on Puppetry in the Dada Vaidya College of Teaching in Ponda. We prepared ourselves and set off on a cloudy afternoon with butterflies in our stomachs and reached our destination in no time. […]