@PurnimaARR
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Free library lady. Sometimes I do jokes. || www.fln.org.in || @freelibsnet.bsky.social
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January 11, 2026 at 6:16 AM
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#FlatmateSearch #Delhi
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January 11, 2026 at 6:16 AM
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A stunning meditation on love, hate, class, oppression, leftist ideology and masculinity by the author of 'The End of Eddy', Edouard Louis: youtu.be/AF7s16ATbJc?si…
via @natashabadhwar.bsky.social
via @natashabadhwar.bsky.social
Writer Édouard Louis: Who Gets to Escape?
YouTube video by Louisiana Channel
https://youtu.be/AF7s16ATbJc?si…
November 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
A stunning meditation on love, hate, class, oppression, leftist ideology and masculinity by the author of 'The End of Eddy', Edouard Louis: youtu.be/AF7s16ATbJc?si…
via @natashabadhwar.bsky.social
via @natashabadhwar.bsky.social
This was a fun chat to do with my saathi Shivam. It went by in a flash and I don’t recall much of it. There was, at some point, a giant cat in the chat room. Watch!
Also check out the fundraiser for USbased folks in the thread below.
Also check out the fundraiser for USbased folks in the thread below.
The Silicon Valley Rotary e-Club invited us to talk about the grassroots free library movement in India and why it is vital in these current times to ramp up our support for public libraries everywhere. #Watch
youtu.be/W-gSoOwsBOY
youtu.be/W-gSoOwsBOY
Purnima Rao and Shivam Singh - Building The People's Library: India's Free Library Movement
YouTube video by Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley
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May 24, 2025 at 4:12 AM
This was a fun chat to do with my saathi Shivam. It went by in a flash and I don’t recall much of it. There was, at some point, a giant cat in the chat room. Watch!
Also check out the fundraiser for USbased folks in the thread below.
Also check out the fundraiser for USbased folks in the thread below.
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BREAKING: Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, has died, the Vatican said in a video statement, ending an often turbulent reign marked by division and tension as he sought to overhaul the hidebound institution reut.rs/3GjEAvK
Pope Francis has died, Vatican says in video statement
Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, has died, the Vatican said in a video statement on Monday, ending an often turbulent reign marked by division and tension as he sought to overhaul the hidebound institution.
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April 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
BREAKING: Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, has died, the Vatican said in a video statement, ending an often turbulent reign marked by division and tension as he sought to overhaul the hidebound institution reut.rs/3GjEAvK
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Full Video 🎥 of FLNs panel discussion on the Right To Read is out now!
Watch! youtu.be/2Cngs7LkCiw?...
Watch! youtu.be/2Cngs7LkCiw?...
April 10, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Full Video 🎥 of FLNs panel discussion on the Right To Read is out now!
Watch! youtu.be/2Cngs7LkCiw?...
Watch! youtu.be/2Cngs7LkCiw?...
I was at a conference where a vendor said his app could replace a “million librarians” and would work seamlessly with the support of “AI facilitators” - librarians to humanise AI.
I attended a library vendor AI demo/upsell today and I wish I could explain to them that everything they are selling could be achieved by hiring like two more people in our library
March 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I was at a conference where a vendor said his app could replace a “million librarians” and would work seamlessly with the support of “AI facilitators” - librarians to humanise AI.
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“We have also documented a case of gang rape… on a woman……She said she was filmed during the assault… [they] stripped her, kept beating her in her genitals … humiliated her for four hours. She said the cameras were recording the whole time.”
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3BDS #Israel #News #Palestine
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3BDS #Israel #News #Palestine
Palestinian Women 'Raped by Israeli Soldiers.' Silence From Western Media
Powerful new testimony reveals Western hypocrisy is alive and well – rape is only a crime and an outrage when it serves Western political interests.
zeteo.com
March 28, 2025 at 5:12 AM
“We have also documented a case of gang rape… on a woman……She said she was filmed during the assault… [they] stripped her, kept beating her in her genitals … humiliated her for four hours. She said the cameras were recording the whole time.”
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3BDS #Israel #News #Palestine
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3BDS #Israel #News #Palestine
Follow @tclp.bsky.social for the brilliant model libraries they (we run). For showing that libraries - when they are free - are a true reclamation of public spaces for communities to own and lead.
March 30, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Follow @tclp.bsky.social for the brilliant model libraries they (we run). For showing that libraries - when they are free - are a true reclamation of public spaces for communities to own and lead.
…and when the book was done, neither of us commented on the fact that his stutter had become significantly reduced by the end of it. We just talked about how silly and fun the story was and hoped we’d meet soon to do this again.
March 30, 2025 at 4:05 AM
…and when the book was done, neither of us commented on the fact that his stutter had become significantly reduced by the end of it. We just talked about how silly and fun the story was and hoped we’d meet soon to do this again.
Then we returned to our read aloud, which halfway through became him reading to me - he told me he’s smarter than he appears and that his stutter made him sound stupid.
I told him he was doing just fine and that he’d made the story enjoyable with his comic timing. We carried on…
I told him he was doing just fine and that he’d made the story enjoyable with his comic timing. We carried on…
March 30, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Then we returned to our read aloud, which halfway through became him reading to me - he told me he’s smarter than he appears and that his stutter made him sound stupid.
I told him he was doing just fine and that he’d made the story enjoyable with his comic timing. We carried on…
I told him he was doing just fine and that he’d made the story enjoyable with his comic timing. We carried on…
I was doing a read aloud with a young member when a parliamentarian came by for a visit. The kid asked me who he was and when I told him, he became excited thinking that the MP would talk about public libraries in the Rajya Sabha.
March 30, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I was doing a read aloud with a young member when a parliamentarian came by for a visit. The kid asked me who he was and when I told him, he became excited thinking that the MP would talk about public libraries in the Rajya Sabha.
Two of the most significant I books I’ve read in the last 20 years, displayed at my most favourite place in the world — The Community Library Project in Delhi.
March 30, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Two of the most significant I books I’ve read in the last 20 years, displayed at my most favourite place in the world — The Community Library Project in Delhi.
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If you are (or know) an upcoming musician, this is a great opportunity to showcase your original work. Please share.
We continue our open platform series. After open mics for poets and storytellers, this one is for those who make original music.
Want a spot? See: thegoaproject.wordpress.com/2025/03/20/t...
Register to come listen: bit.ly/TGPSessions
More about #TGPSessions: thegoaproject.wordpress.com
Want a spot? See: thegoaproject.wordpress.com/2025/03/20/t...
Register to come listen: bit.ly/TGPSessions
More about #TGPSessions: thegoaproject.wordpress.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:55 AM
If you are (or know) an upcoming musician, this is a great opportunity to showcase your original work. Please share.
Yesterday the Right To Read campaign was in Delhi University.
It’s a pan-India demand for free, anticaste public access libraries that welcome all.
People from all over the country are signing postcards to our ministers to demand library reform.
It’s a pan-India demand for free, anticaste public access libraries that welcome all.
People from all over the country are signing postcards to our ministers to demand library reform.
March 27, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Yesterday the Right To Read campaign was in Delhi University.
It’s a pan-India demand for free, anticaste public access libraries that welcome all.
People from all over the country are signing postcards to our ministers to demand library reform.
It’s a pan-India demand for free, anticaste public access libraries that welcome all.
People from all over the country are signing postcards to our ministers to demand library reform.
Have you seen Vibhu Grover’s beautiful film about chasing the auroras in Ladhak?
youtu.be/2P6ql9ZMGig?...
youtu.be/2P6ql9ZMGig?...
Umling La & Auroras | Cycling to the world's highest road through solar and sand storms
YouTube video by Vibhu Grover
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March 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Have you seen Vibhu Grover’s beautiful film about chasing the auroras in Ladhak?
youtu.be/2P6ql9ZMGig?...
youtu.be/2P6ql9ZMGig?...
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we’re so grateful for the strong reaction people are having to Vivian Wilson’s convo w Ella Yurman ❤️🔥 @teenvogue.com
it feels worth noting that Elon Musk spent a chunk of the day of his daughter’s first cover story tweeting anti-trans propaganda mixed with anti-journalist memes
it feels worth noting that Elon Musk spent a chunk of the day of his daughter’s first cover story tweeting anti-trans propaganda mixed with anti-journalist memes
Vivian Wilson on Being Elon Musk’s Estranged Daughter, Going Viral, and Protecting Trans Youth
Elon Musk’s estranged daughter is coming into her own.
www.teenvogue.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
we’re so grateful for the strong reaction people are having to Vivian Wilson’s convo w Ella Yurman ❤️🔥 @teenvogue.com
it feels worth noting that Elon Musk spent a chunk of the day of his daughter’s first cover story tweeting anti-trans propaganda mixed with anti-journalist memes
it feels worth noting that Elon Musk spent a chunk of the day of his daughter’s first cover story tweeting anti-trans propaganda mixed with anti-journalist memes
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Manal, Loay's baby girl, was born under difficult circumstances at the start of this war. Loay works tirelessly to provide for Manal and her brother, Yousef, while facing rising costs, especially for essential baby supplies like milk and more.
gofund.me/56edb35c
gofund.me/56edb35c
Donate to Help Loay’s family survive continuing displacement, organized by Ibrahim Dawwas
Stand with me to help my family survive and has better life.
I, … Ibrahim Dawwas needs your support for Help Loay’s family survive continuing displacement
gofund.me
March 23, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Manal, Loay's baby girl, was born under difficult circumstances at the start of this war. Loay works tirelessly to provide for Manal and her brother, Yousef, while facing rising costs, especially for essential baby supplies like milk and more.
gofund.me/56edb35c
gofund.me/56edb35c
Happy birthday Kim Stanley Robinson, you legend.
March 23, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Happy birthday Kim Stanley Robinson, you legend.
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never surrender
March 22, 2025 at 5:54 AM
never surrender
And then, this. All through March and April, a special @freelibsnet.bsky.social #LibraryLove project, in which I will write you a new short story, just for you, based on the people you want to put in your story.
#ShortStory #CustomStories
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#ShortStory #CustomStories
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Library L💙VE #ForALL!
Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL
nadjanadika.bsky.social is making an amazing offer.
So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate
OR
Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove/
Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL
nadjanadika.bsky.social is making an amazing offer.
So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate
OR
Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove/
March 6, 2025 at 7:04 AM