Book club
Co-founder and leader of Reader's Guide to Chaos | April 2019 – Present
I launched a book club named “Reader’s Guide to Chaos” to rekindle people’s love for reading and to build a community of lifelong learners. Within three months, I was able to assemble a team of 5 and foster a community of 72 members coming from diverse backgrounds. These were my various initiatives as a part of the same:
- A podcast, “Left on Read” (available on Spotify and YouTube): Here, my friends and I discuss everything book-related, from a roast of Macbeth to what made us fall in love with reading, with featured guests in select episodes.
- Book of the month: I have a poll to select every month’s read. At the end of the month, I schedule a meeting to discuss the same. This monthly ritual has enabled me to develop an examining eye and helped me inculcate the habit of reading into my routine.
- Community service: I curated a two-day enrichment program for my family’s charitable venture - a boarding school for underprivileged girls in my grandfather’s native town, Kadi. I planned sessions ranging from a guide on menstrual health to a dance competition. Our club has also forged close ties with a local, charitable boarding school for underprivileged children - Visamo Kids. Our club organized a Zine making workshop, a story-based illustration competition, and a book donation drive that amassed over 150 books for the same. Lastly, I rallied my club members to volunteer at Sewa cafe with me. This local community kitchen is an experiment in the gift-giving economy and a cornerstone of Gandhian Ela Bhatt’s social activism.
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