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The magical moment captured in this photo happened about 8 years ago. It was probably my second visit to Spiti Valley, when I visited a government school in a Spitian village. I was carrying a few...
11 year old B has recently started coming to our Manali library. He is shy and sincere. He arrives exactly at opening time, picks up a book of his choice and keeps reading attentively until closing...
A question that I often get asked is “How did you figure out that you wanted to run a free community library”? It was a process that unfolded slowly and organically. It helped that I had been a...
Another Spitian summer is coming to a close. Night-time temperatures have started dipping to sub-zero and the first snow of the season has already fallen. Water, electricity and phone network issues...
And what a day it was! We had 150 people show up, a huge number by Spiti standards. This was about five times the people that we were prepared to host, and fifteen times of our average daily footfall...
Our new free community library space for Let’s Open a Book, which we’ve been slowly setting up over the last month, opens in a few hours. The inauguration is going to be a humble event, but I’m...
I was recently felicitated for the work we’re doing at Let’s Open a Book. This happened at the La Darcha fair, a multi-day festival celebrating the historical trade relations between...
Finally, after months of scouting, we’ve found a new library space in Kaza (Spiti Valley) for Let’s Open a Book. It is a four-room space that will have separate reading rooms for children and...
Anyone following the news knows that things have been bad in Himachal for the past few days. When the mobile and internet networks started working yesterday after over 48 hours of complete blackout...
Thank you Mint Lounge for writing about us. Someone aptly told me that this article feels like a warm hug...