My article:

In the US, one oft-cited 1984 study conservatively estimated that typical middle school students read between 5,00,000 and 1 million words a year...The total number of words contained in NCERT textbooks... class VI students is roughly 2,00,000

frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/e...

Bindaas ek shaam. 50 women gathered together @tclp.bsky.social for an evening of leisure. Often the last to be prioritised in the workspace and home for rest, they read, played, watched a movie. Women at Leisure is a political act; at the library, its also fun.
Caption: DEM
📸: Shivani and Pooja

Hiring. Work for justice.

I interviewed @edrabinski.bsky.social for Scroll.

And this is why we need physical libraries India. Publicly funded. Locally owned and operated. Kerala style autonomy. Delhi where I live has one public library for every 350,000 or so people.

Books are not locked behind glass shelves in our libraries. For the youngest of our members. We are building. #PalacesForThePeople.
DK says YES to #PalacesForThePeople. You should too.
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I’ve decided to indefinitely extend FREE online viewing of #FinalSolution, my film on #2002GujaratRiots, and the rise of Narendra Modi, now the Prime Minister of India.

Real #GujaratFiles

Do share and spread word, esp among the under-35 audiences (too young in 2002!). vimeo.com/329340055

Our beautiful library in Khirki has seen too many evictions and too much displacement of members. Please support our campaign to build a permanent building.

Calling all library practitioners and those with a stake in India reading. We are at IIC at 10 am tomorrow. RSVP at the link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The govt is planning changes to the public library system. We want free, excellent, anti-caste, feminist, inclusive libraries for all people

A year ago, on this day, the IDF targetted and killed Refaat Alareer.
A little later, I recorded this poem he wrote which the world knows now.
[In the recording, I say it was written on 14th October, 2023, but I later found that he had written it many years ago.]

OMG Yes! FLN is where you can find over 200 grassroots library organisation and Bansa in rural UP is where you find India reading and then there's TCLP where my heart -- well, it explodes -- every day.

We love The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF and cant wait for the launch @tclp.bsky.social

Sarthak, one of our youngest members, has embraced independent reading—not through words, but through images. His fearless imagination reminds us that reading is about creating worlds, not just decoding words.
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We need your support: pages.razorpay.com/supportfreel...

#FreeLibrary

The grassroots librarians of India have united in the Free Libraries Network to argue for free, anti-caste, publicly funded and autonomous public library system. Read here: www.fln.org.in/library-refo...

Wonderful time today spent with Delhi’s Community Library Project, learning how the library can be used as an organizing tool through which we can all get free. Gratitude to my hosts from @freelibsnet.bsky.social!

What is Free Libraries Network?
We are a collective of grassroots library workers and activists, who respond to the hunger of millions of un-seen, un-reached and unacknowledged readers. We are peer-support, research and action group. This is our demand, our hope and our vision.

To attend this conference, RSVP at: forms.gle/9CUBF5dPDVBi...