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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...
As the founder of Let’s Open a Book, I’m constantly making big and small decisions. These days there are a lot of operational decisions to make, like “how do we send these boxes of books to...
A little over a month ago, we set up an operations office in Jagatsukh (a village about 5 kms away from Manali, Himachal Pradesh). While the main objective of this set-up was to support our free...
‘आज बहुत बर्फ पड़ रही है, आज बच्चे नहीं आए’ (it’s snowing a lot today, so none of the kids have showed up) – Kalzang tells me. She says this quite hesitantly, so I reassure her that it is...
From reading travel magazines to being in one, it’s been a rather interesting journey! – Read More...
Last month, I signed up for a particularly ambitious project. I painted a wall mural at a commercial property. I’ve been teaching myself how to paint wall murals and I’ve completed a couple of those...
Spiti Valley, where I work, is a sparsely populated area. It is spread over an area of 7,101.1 sq km and has a population of 13,000 people. That makes the population density 2 people/sq km (it’s...
Hear from our volunteer Neha Bhatt about her volunteering experience at our library in Kaza, Spiti Valley...
Logistics has been an interesting challenge for us at Let’s Open a Book. Given that the roads to Spiti Valley are extremely difficult, the question “how do we take books to Spiti” teases us...
It feels amazing when your hard work gets recognized. But it feels something else to stand alongside amazing folks like Swati Kundra, Tunna’s Book Cafe The Community Library Project – TCLP...