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@PurnimaARR @purnima.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
#FlatmateSearch #Delhi Pls DM to know more Do share this responsibly if you know someone looking to rent/sublet in Delhi
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@PurnimaARR @purnima.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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
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Writer Édouard Louis: Who Gets to Escape?
YouTube video by Louisiana Channel
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@PurnimaARR @purnima.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 21/04/2025
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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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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Free Libraries Network - India @freelibsnet.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Full Video 🎥 of FLNs panel discussion on the Right To Read is out now! Watch! youtu.be/2Cngs7LkCiw?...
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@PurnimaARR @purnima.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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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@PurnimaARR @purnima.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUIj...
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Jon Batiste Hears Chappell Roan For The First Time
YouTube video by Pianote
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“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.” zeteo.com/p/palestinia... 3BDS #Israel #News #Palestine
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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.
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@PurnimaARR @purnima.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
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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Udhay Shankar @ushankar.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
If you are (or know) an upcoming musician, this is a great opportunity to showcase your original work. Please share.
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@PurnimaARR @purnima.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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.
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@PurnimaARR @purnima.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Have you seen Vibhu Grover’s beautiful film about chasing the auroras in Ladhak? youtu.be/2P6ql9ZMGig?...
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Umling La & Auroras | Cycling to the world's highest road through solar and sand storms
YouTube video by Vibhu Grover
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 21/03/2025
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
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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.
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SG @silverlightgal.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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
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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
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@PurnimaARR @purnima.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Happy birthday Kim Stanley Robinson, you legend.
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Hansraj Meena @hansrajmeena.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
never surrender
neil degrasse tyson: you are not a planet

pluto: you are not carl sagan

ndt: flips bird

pluto: flips two birds
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@PurnimaARR @purnima.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Reading a solid piece of film criticism after a very long time. maktoobmedia.com/opinion/supe...
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Superboys of Malegaon: A sanitized spectacle of appropriation and erasure
Cinema, at its best, is an act of discovery—a way to reveal untold stories, amplify unheard voices, and explore cultures beyond mainstream narratives. Superboys of Malegaon, Supermen of Malegaon Howev...
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@PurnimaARR @purnima.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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@PurnimaARR @purnima.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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NEP is casteist, self-defeatist; centre should learn from Tamil Nadu: Dr Ezhilan Naganathan
Dr Ezhilan Naganathan, a Tamil Nadus-based social activist and physician, said, that the NEP is not a reform, but a regression.
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@PurnimaARR @purnima.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
It’s not over yet. We have over 40 offers by some of the coolest people in literature and art.
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நாடிகா நாடியா / Nadika Nadja @nadjanadika.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Bluesky butterflies? Please please do check out @freelibsnet.bsky.social and the campaign some of us are a part of to take books to people. Sign up for one, two, all the offers. Celebrate stories and books and libraries.
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Aditya M @almostinfamous.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
please take part in their fundraisers - these people are doing stellar work for real
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Hamsini H @hamsini.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
So new and so late to learn about this but FLN is doing stellar work! If you want to engage with some pretty cool people and support free libraries at the same time, look at their list of artists, writers and others donating time to raise funds. The fundraiser ends on 28 Feb so check it out ASAP!
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நாடிகா நாடியா / Nadika Nadja @nadjanadika.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Come along, let's make stories and celebrate the amazingness that is the @freelibsnet.bsky.social
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@PurnimaARR @purnima.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Did you know that besides this wonderful offer, Nadika has also contributed to our People’s National Library Policy to ensure it upholds queer and trans rights and also gave us valuable insights on digital rights…she’s a star and we’re lucky to have her offer.
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Peter G @zigzackly.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Of course you can donate too. Not just money — though that is always wonderful, thank you very much, your tax deduction certificate will be with you soon — but also your time and your expertise (there are so. many. things. you can do, check the link), and with books. www.fln.org.in/donate-to-fln/
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Donate to FLN
Your support of our collective of free library practitioners, researchers & activists allows us to: Mentor free libraries across India and provide them with books, reading programs, training &a…
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Peter G @zigzackly.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This is a 🧵 in which I aim to persuade you to support @freelibsnet.bsky.social and, if your finances permit it, to take advantage of the many fabulous offers in its #LibraryLove fun(d)-raiser.
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Free Libraries Network - India @freelibsnet.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL #AditiRao is making an amazing offer. So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove/
The image is a poster with several elements.
On a blue background, there are several elements of a flyer.
There is a photograph of a person looking at camera.
Below that, the person’s name, and a description:
Aditi Rao
Writer and Teacher
Next to it is this text:
For a donation of ₹4,000 to the Free Libraries Network, you will get access to a 6-part self-paced poetry course online on The Make Space.
In a band across the bottom are two logos.
On the left, one logotype has a stylised image of three books on a shelf and next to it, the name of the organisation, Free Libraries Network, India & South Asia in dark blue letters.
On the right, the second logotype, which has a stylised image of a blue gift box opening and little red book flying out of it, and the name of the campaign, Library Love.
The Craft of Poetry is a 6-part self-paced workshop, consisting of detailed recorded videos, readings, and writing prompts. The workshop will walk you through various elements of poetic craft, including image, metaphor, sound, and the use of visual elements in poetry. You will have access to all of the course materials, as well as a discussion board and chat with others who have signed up for the course.

Aditi has published two full-length collections of poetry, The Fingers Remember (Yoda Press, 2014), and A Kind of Freedom Song (Yoda Press, 2019). Her work has won The Hedgebrook Residency, the Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, the Sangam House Residency, the Srinivas Rayaprol Prize for Poetry, the Toto Funds the Arts Creative Writing Award, the Muse India Young Writer Award, and others. Aditi  runs the Nomad Eco-Retreat.

Below that, a QR Code, and these words:
To claim this offer (and view all the other offers), please scan this code, or go to https://www.fln.org.in/librarylove/FLN is a collective of grassroots organisations and practitioners building, operating and advocating for free, anti-caste and feminist libraries that guarantee equal access to reading, learning and information resources for all. 
We work with governments, civil society, national and international library associations, publishers and literary groups and individuals, to create policy and implement free-library curricula and models, and to reform India’s public library system.
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Library Love (14–28 February) 
Our storyteller friends are making an array of generous offers in exchange for donations to FLN.
Funds raised will go towards curating book sets for grassroots libraries, training library leaders, research and advocacy, and paying our team of educators, organisers, trainers, researchers and managers.
Donations to Free Libraries Network FLN are exempt from tax under section 80G of the Income Tax Act (old regime). FLN can only accept donations within India and in Indian currency.
The image is a poster with several elements.
In large text at centre are these words:
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Our vision of a free library does not stop at delivering excellent library services to all. It must also be anti-caste, gender and disability-inclusive, and do the essential work of welcoming into reading and thinking, those who have been historically excluded.
FLN asserts that free libraries are a matter of right.
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In a band across the bottom are two logos.
On the left, one logotype has a stylised image of three books on a shelf and next to it, the name of the organisation, Free Libraries Network, India & South Asia in dark blue letters.
On the right, the second logotype, which has a stylised image of a blue gift box opening and little red book flying out of it, and the name of the campaign, Library Love.
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Free Libraries Network - India @freelibsnet.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Today & tomorrow, activists of the Free Libraries Network will represent grassroots libraries & their members from across India at the #IndianLibraryCongress in Delhi. They will talk about the power of libraries when they are made free & non-exclusionary for all.
4 children, 2 girls & 2 boys, ages 10-13yrs are huddled over an Alphabet Book. They are seated at a library table and are surrounded by colourful bookshelves. They are deeply engrossed in the book.A girl aged 8 yrs is in a red dress inside a mud hut, she is seated on the bare floor and is reading aloud a book called The New Sweater.A girl in pigtails aged 7-10 yrs is reading an accessible books for visually impaired readers. She is reading by feeling the book with her hands. The book is a large green object, with cut outs of a tree, monkeys, dogs etc. A library facilitator holds up the book to her. A smiling older lady watched the read aloud.A park scene. Children of all ages (6-14 yrs) are in a circle. There are books in the middle of the circle, on the grass. A bespectacled librarian does a read aloud. One of the children is pointing at the book excitedly. The grass is green and the sky is a dull blue. Two women (gardeners of the public park) are outside the circle but listening to the story.
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Peter G @zigzackly.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The image has a drawing on the left and text on the right.

The image is a caricature in black ink (with some grey) on a white background. It shows two people in Elizabethian attire, ruffs, elaborate clothes, hose. One of them, tall, stubble on head, is drawing with a quill in a book. Behind him are pinned a couple of rough sketches of the other person. The other person has long curly hair that starts well past the forehead, eyeglasses, and a goatee — think Shakespeare — and is declaiming from a scroll.

The text on the left says:
  Would you like to own some Eipe art
  Made with whimsy and lots of heart?
  With a Griffin joke
  In a poem bespoke?
  To get one, with 5k you must part.
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Peter G @zigzackly.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Look, you follow me on any social media, you get my kind of silliness for free. I get it. But, but, but: With Rajiv Goddam Eipe’s art? Made to your brief? This is a steal.
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Free Libraries Network - India @freelibsnet.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
For anyone experiencing trouble using the 'Library Love' fundraiser QR code in previous posts, pls use this one. Apologies for the trouble! जो कोई भी पिछले पोस्ट में 'Library Love' फंडरेज़र QR कोड का उपयोग करने में समस्या का सामना कर रहा है, कृपया इस कोड का उपयोग करें। असुविधा के लिए क्षमा करें!
QR code against a blue background.
Below is the text: To claim any Library Love offer scan this code or go to www.fln.org.in/librarylove
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Free Libraries Network - India @freelibsnet.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Library L💙VE is Revolutionary Love! Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL Avtar Singh is making an amazing offer. So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove/
The image is a poster with several elements.
On a blue background, there are several elements of a flyer.
There is a photograph of a person looking at camera.
Below that, the person’s name, and a description:
Avtar Singh
Author, editor, storyteller, traveller
Next to it is this text:
For Rs 15,000, I'll take a close look at your PROSE work in progress (short story, essay), and suggest a way forward. 
In a band across the bottom are two logos.
On the left, one logotype has a stylised image of three books on a shelf and next to it, the name of the organisation, Free Libraries Network, India & South Asia in dark blue letters.
On the right, the second logotype, which has a stylised image of a blue gift box opening and little red book flying out of it, and the name of the campaign, Library Love.
As a writer and editor, I'm well placed to offer advice on structure, theme, and language. If you're working on something (whether a book, short story, essay, or other prose: NOT POETRY), I'd be glad to take a close look at it, and suggest ways in which it can be improved.  
Next to it is a bio of the person making the offer:
Avtar Singh is the author of "Into the Forest" (2024), "Necropolis" (2014), and "The Beauty of These Present Things (2000). His new novel, "The Pretenders", will be published in 2025. He was founder-editor of "Time Out Delhi", and his writings have been published in "The Washington Post", "The Hindu", "Seminar", "Foreign Policy", "India Today", "Nikkei Asian Review", among others. He has lived and worked in India, the USA, China, and Germany.

Below that, a QR Code, and these words:
To claim this offer (and view all the other offers), please scan this code, or go to https://www.fln.org.in/librarylove/
In a band across the bottom are two logos.FLN is a collective of grassroots organisations and practitioners building, operating and advocating for free, anti-caste and feminist libraries that guarantee equal access to reading, learning and information resources for all. 
We work with governments, civil society, national and international library associations, publishers and literary groups and individuals, to create policy and implement free-library curricula and models, and to reform India’s public library system.
Library Love (14–28 February) 
Our storyteller friends are making an array of generous offers in exchange for donations to FLN.
Funds raised will go towards curating book sets for grassroots libraries, training library leaders, research and advocacy, and paying our team of educators, organisers, trainers, researchers and managers.
Donations to Free Libraries Network FLN are exempt from tax under section 80G of the Income Tax Act (old regime). FLN can only accept donations within India and in Indian currency.
The image is a poster with several elements.
In large text at centre are these words:
Our vision of a free library does not stop at delivering excellent library services to all. It must also be anti-caste, gender and disability-inclusive, and do the essential work of welcoming into reading and thinking, those who have been historically excluded.
FLN asserts that free libraries are a matter of right.
In a band across the bottom are two logos.
On the left, one logotype has a stylised image of three books on a shelf and next to it, the name of the organisation, Free Libraries Network, India & South Asia in dark blue letters.
On the right, the second logotype, which has a stylised image of a blue gift box opening and little red book flying out of it, and the name of the campaign, Library Love.
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Free Libraries Network - India @freelibsnet.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Free is Equal --> Free Libraries Equal L💙VE! Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL Priya Kuriyan is making an amazing offer. So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove/
The image is a poster with several elements.
On a blue background, there are several elements of a flyer.
There is a photograph of a person looking at camera.
Below that, the person’s name, and a description:
Priya Kuriyan
Children's book illustrator
Next to it is this text:
For a donation of INR 3000, I am offering a signed original mini painting
In a band across the bottom are two logos.
On the left, one logotype has a stylised image of three books on a shelf and next to it, the name of the organisation, Free Libraries Network, India & South Asia in dark blue letters.
On the right, the second logotype, which has a stylised image of a blue gift box opening and little red book flying out of it, and the name of the campaign, Library Love.I am offering 18 original mini paintings, acrylics on paper, of varying sizes.
I will try and send you the artwork of your choice, but if it's not available, I will send a random one.

Bio of the artist:
Priya Kuriyan is a children's book writer-illustrator, comics maker and chronic doodler. She has directed educational films for the Sesame street show (India) and the Children's Film Society of India (CFSI) and has illustrated numerous children's books for publishers like Tulika Books, Penguin, Scholastic and Hachette. She is the recipient of the Big Little Book award, instituted by Parag, an initiative of Tata Trusts in recognition of her contribution to Indian children's literature. Her most recent children's picture book 'Beauty in Missing' was published by Pratham Books, India. She lives and works in the city of Bangalore.

Below that, a QR Code, and these words:
To claim this offer (and view all the other offers), please scan this code, or go to https://www.fln.org.in/librarylove/FLN is a collective of grassroots organisations and practitioners building, operating and advocating for free, anti-caste and feminist libraries that guarantee equal access to reading, learning and information resources for all. 
We work with governments, civil society, national and international library associations, publishers and literary groups and individuals, to create policy and implement free-library curricula and models, and to reform India’s public library system.
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Library Love (14–28 February) 
Our storyteller friends are making an array of generous offers in exchange for donations to FLN.
Funds raised will go towards curating book sets for grassroots libraries, training library leaders, research and advocacy, and paying our team of educators, organisers, trainers, researchers and managers.
Donations to Free Libraries Network FLN are exempt from tax under section 80G of the Income Tax Act (old regime). FLN can only accept donations within India and in Indian currency.
The image is a poster with several elements.
In large text at centre are these words:
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Our vision of a free library does not stop at delivering excellent library services to all. It must also be anti-caste, gender and disability-inclusive, and do the essential work of welcoming into reading and thinking, those who have been historically excluded.
FLN asserts that free libraries are a matter of right.
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In a band across the bottom are two logos.
On the left, one logotype has a stylised image of three books on a shelf and next to it, the name of the organisation, Free Libraries Network, India & South Asia in dark blue letters.
On the right, the second logotype, which has a stylised image of a blue gift box opening and little red book flying out of it, and the name of the campaign, Library Love.
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Free Libraries Network - India @freelibsnet.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Breaking news! You have 'Library L💙VED' this offer and filled up all the seats! So Sayoni Basu has kindly offered 2 more! Grab it now! Scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove/
The image is a poster with several elements.
On a blue background, there are several elements of a flyer.
There is a photograph of a person looking at camera.
Below that, the person’s name, and a description:
Sayoni Basu
Editor
Next to it is this text:
For a donation of ₹3000 to the Free Libraries Network, I'd like to offer a one-on-one workshop for writers seeking feedback on their book proposal or manuscript. Especially suited for children's book authors but open to all writers.
In a band across the bottom are two logos.
On the left, one logotype has a stylised image of three books on a shelf and next to it, the name of the organisation, Free Libraries Network, India & South Asia in dark blue letters.
On the right, the second logotype, which has a stylised image of a blue gift box opening and little red book flying out of it, and the name of the campaign, Library Love.
The image is a poster with several elements.
One is a block of text which says:
A one-hour one-on-one feedback and critique session for writers. The manuscript will have to be sent a week earlier to allow me to read and think it through. I am happy to suggest publishers for whom this might work, and supply contact details.
Next to it is a bio of the person making the offer:
Sayoni Basu has been an editor of books for children for almost twenty-five years. She has worked with Penguin, Scholastic and Amar Chitra Katha. She was a co-founder of Duckbill Books and continues to be spiritually a platypus.

Below that, a QR Code, and these words:
To claim this offer (and view all the other offers), please scan this code, or go to https://www.fln.org.in/librarylove/
FLN is a collective of grassroots organisations and practitioners building, operating and advocating for free, anti-caste and feminist libraries that guarantee equal access to reading, learning and information resources for all. 
We work with governments, civil society, national and international library associations, publishers and literary groups and individuals, to create policy and implement free-library curricula and models, and to reform India’s public library system.

Library Love (14–28 February) 
Our storyteller friends are making an array of generous offers in exchange for donations to FLN.
Funds raised will go towards curating book sets for grassroots libraries, training library leaders, research and advocacy, and paying our team of educators, organisers, trainers, researchers and managers.
Donations to Free Libraries Network FLN are exempt from tax under section 80G of the Income Tax Act (old regime). FLN can only accept donations within India and in Indian currency.
The image is a poster with several elements.
In large text at centre are these words:
Our vision of a free library does not stop at delivering excellent library services to all. It must also be anti-caste, gender and disability-inclusive, and do the essential work of welcoming into reading and thinking, those who have been historically excluded.
FLN asserts that free libraries are a matter of right.
In a band across the bottom are two logos.
On the left, one logotype has a stylised image of three books on a shelf and next to it, the name of the organisation, Free Libraries Network, India & South Asia in dark blue letters.
On the right, the second logotype, which has a stylised image of a blue gift bo
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Free Libraries Network - India @freelibsnet.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
पुस्तकालयों के लिए हमारा 💙 कभी नहीं रुकेगा! हमा निःशुल्क, जाति-विरोधी, नारीवादी सार्वजनिक पुस्तकालयों के माध्यम से 'पढ़ने के अधिकार' के लिए धन संचय अभियान चलाते हैं Vandana Yadav एक अद्भुत पेशकश कर रही है। दान करने के लिए स्लाइड 2 पर QR code स्कैन करें या क्लिक करें www.fln.org.in/librarylove/
चित्र कई एलिमेंट वाला एक पोस्टर है।
नीले रंग की पृष्ठभूमि पर, एक फ़्लायर के कई एलिमेंट हैं।
इसमें एक शख्स की तस्वीर है जो कैमरे की ओर देख रही है।
उसके नीचे, व्यक्ति का नाम और विवरण:
वन्दना यादव
लेखक
इसके आगे यह लिखा हुआ मिलेगा:
एफएलएन के लाइब्रेरी प्रोजेक्ट को 5500 रूपए डोनेट करने पर आप मुझसे 30 मिनिट तक लेखन पर सलाह अथवा बातचीत कर सकते हैं। इसके साथ प्रत्येक दानकर्ता को मेरे संस्मरण की पुस्तक "आई डोन्ट लाइक यू" की हस्ताक्षरित प्रति भेजी जाएगी।

नीचे एक बैंड में दो लोगो है।
बाईं ओर, एक लोगोटाइप में एक शेल्फ पर तीन पुस्तकों की एक तस्वीर है और उसके बगल में गहरे नीले अक्षरों में संगठन का नाम, 'फ्री लाइब्रेरीज़ नेटवर्क, भारत और दक्षिण एशिया' है।
दाईं ओर, दूसरा लोगोटाइप, जिसमें एक नीले गिफ्ट बॉक्स के उद्घाटन और उसमें से उड़ती हुई छोटी लाल क़िताब की एक तस्वीर है और अभियान का नाम, 'लाइब्रेरी लव' है।
यदि आप की हिन्दी लेखन में रुचि है और आप लेखन/प्रकाशन पर सलाह अथवा मार्गदर्शन की ज़रूरत महसूस कर रहे हैं, तब यह ऑफर आपके लिए ही है। मैं अपने 18 वर्षों की प्रोफेशनल लेखकीय यात्रा के अनुभव पर आपसे 30 मिनिट सलाह/मार्गदर्शन देने के लिए बात करूंगी। इसके साथ मैं अपनी संस्मरण की पुस्तक "आई डोन्ट लाइक यू" की विशेष संदेश सहित हस्ताक्षरित प्रति भिजवाने का प्रबंध भी करूंगी।

साहित्यकार, मोटिवेशनल स्पीकर और समाज सेवी वन्दना यादव का ‘कितने मोर्चे’ उपन्यास, सैनिक पत्नियों पर लिखा इस विषय पर हिन्दी का पहला उपन्यास है। ‘शुद्धि’ उपन्यास, भारतीय ज्ञानपीठ ने प्रकाशित किया है जो मृत्यु संस्कार पर केंद्रित है। ‘सब्जियों वाले गमले’ (बाल कहानी पुस्तक) को नेशनल बकु ट्रस्ट ऑफ इंडिया ने प्रकाशित किया है। यह एनबीटी की बेस्ट सेलर बुक लिस्ट में शामिल है। इसकी अब तक चार लाख से अधिक प्रतियां पाठकों द्वारा ख़रीदी जा चुकी हैं। अनेक राज्यों के सरकारी शिक्षण प्रोजेक्ट्स में इसे लिया जा रहा है। उड़िया भाषा में इसका अनुवाद भी प्रकाशित हुआ है तथा अनेक राज्यों के बुलबुल प्रोजेक्ट में पुस्तक को शामिल किया गया है।
एफएलएन ज़मीनी स्तर के संगठनों और कार्यकर्ताओं का एक समूह है जो निशुल्क, जाति-विरोधी और नारीवादी पुस्तकालयों का निर्माण, संचालन और वकालत करता है जो सभी के लिए पढ़ने, सीखने और सूचना संसाधनों तक एकसमान पहुंच की गारंटी देता है। हम नीति बनाने और मुक्त-पुस्तकालय पाठ्यक्रम और मॉडल लागू करने और भारत की सार्वजनिक पुस्तकालय प्रणाली में सुधार करने के लिए सरकारों, नागरिक समाज, राष्ट्रीय एवं अंतर्राष्ट्रीय पुस्तकालय संघों, प्रकाशकों, साहित्यिक समूहों और व्यक्तियों के साथ काम करते हैं।

लाइब्रेरी लव (14-28 फरवरी) 

हमारे लेखक, चित्रकार मित्र दान के बदले में अपनी ओर से प्रस्तावों की एक श्रृंखला बना रहे हैं।
जुटाई धनराशि ज़मीनी स्तर के पुस्तकालयों के लिए पुस्तक सेट तैयार करने, पुस्तकालय संचालन कर्ताओं को प्रशिक्षित करने, अनुसंधान और वकालत करने तथा शिक्षकों, आयोजकों, प्रशिक्षकों, शोधकर्ताओं और प्रबंधकों की हमारी टीम को भुगतान करने में ख़र्च की जाएगी।

"एफएलएन" को दान आयकर अधिनियम (पुरानी व्यवस्था) की धारा 80जी के तहत कर से मुक्त है। एफएलएन केवल भारत के भीतर और भारतीय मुद्रा में दान स्वीकार कर सकता है।

चित्र कई एलिमेंट वाला एक पोस्टर है।

बीच में बड़े आकार में ये शब्द लिखे हैं:

निःशुल्क पुस्तकालय का हमारा दृष्टिकोण सभी को उत्कृष्ट पुस्तकालय सेवाएँ प्रदान करने तक ही सीमित नहीं है। इसे जाति-विरोधी, लिंग और विकलांगता-समावेशी भी होना चाहिए, और पढ़ने एवं सोचने में उन लोगों का स्वागत करने का आवश्यक कार्य करना चाहिए जिन्हें सामाजिक स्तर पर पुरातन काल से बाहर रखा गया है। 

एफएलएन का दावा है कि निशुल्क पुस्तकालय अधिकार का मामला है।

नीचे एक बैंड में दो लोगो है।
बाईं ओर, एक लोगोटाइप में एक शेल्फ पर तीन पुस्तकों की एक तस्वीर है और उसके बगल में गहरे नीले अक्षरों में संगठन का नाम, 'फ्री लाइब्रेरीज़ नेटवर्क, भारत और दक्षिण एशिया' है।
दाईं ओर, दूसरा लोगोटाइप, जिसमें एक नीले गिफ्ट बॉक्स के उद्घाटन और उसमें से उड़ती हुई छोटी लाल क़िताब की एक तस्वीर है और अभियान का नाम, 'लाइब्रेरी लव' है।
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@PurnimaARR @purnima.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
People with kids, check out Samina’s offer for workshops. All donations support the work we do at @freelibsnet.bsky.social
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Free Libraries Network - India @freelibsnet.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Sunday L💙VE for Libraries is real! Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL @tashanmehta.bsky.social is making an amazing offer. So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove/
The image is a poster with several elements.
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There is a photograph of a person looking at camera.
Below that, the person’s name, and a description:
Tashan Mehta
Author
Next to it is this text:
For a donation of ₹5000 to the Free Libraries Network, I am offering a one-on-one chat with me. We can discuss my work / your work / writing in general – you pick!
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On the right, the second logotype, which has a stylised image of a blue gift box opening and little red book flying out of it, and the name of the campaign, Library Love.
We can talk about my work and writing practice, or any potential issues you're currently facing in your writing practice, or writing in general – it's up to you. I will not be able to read your work (before or after the session) or give you feedback, but I can chat with you artist to artist. I am best versed with novels.

Tashan Mehta is a novelist whose interest lies in form and the fantastical. Her second novel, Mad Sisters of Esi, won the 2024 AutHer Award for Best Novel as well as the 2024 Subjective Chaos Kind of Award for Best Fantasy, and was on the 2023 Locus Recommended Reading List. Her first novel, The Liar’s Weave, was shortlisted for the Prabha Kaitan’s Woman’s Voice Award. She can be found at tashanmehta.com.

Below that, a QR Code, and these words:
To claim this offer (and view all the other offers), please scan this code, or go to https://www.fln.org.in/librarylove/

FLN is a collective of grassroots organisations and practitioners building, operating and advocating for free, anti-caste and feminist libraries that guarantee equal access to reading, learning and information resources for all. 
We work with governments, civil society, national and international library associations, publishers and literary groups and individuals, to create policy and implement free-library curricula and models, and to reform India’s public library system.

Library Love (14–28 February) 
Our storyteller friends are making an array of generous offers in exchange for donations to FLN.
Funds raised will go towards curating book sets for grassroots libraries, training library leaders, research and advocacy, and paying our team of educators, organisers, trainers, researchers and managers.
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FLN asserts that free libraries are a matter of right.
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On the left, one logotype has a stylised image of three books on a shelf and next to it, the name of the organisation, Free Libraries Network, India & South Asia in dark blue letters.
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@PurnimaARR @purnima.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Writer’s block? @unmana.bsky.social is generously offering her hacks that led her to publish Chikkamma Tours.
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@PurnimaARR @purnima.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Book club people, where you at!
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@PurnimaARR @purnima.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
@sridala.bsky.social consistently shows up for the Free Libraries Network. Do check out her generous offer to all of you.
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@PurnimaARR @purnima.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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Free Libraries Network - India @freelibsnet.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This is no ordinary L💙VE! Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL @kiranmanral.bsky.social is making an amazing offer. So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove
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Kiran Manral
Author, Writer, Podcaster
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For a donation of INR 3000, I will do a 30-minute Zoom call with you or someone you would like to gift my offer to.
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The call will be specific to writing, either writing strategies or publishing queries you might have or about my own work. I will not be doing feedback on your writing.

This call would have to be during work hours on a weekday
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Author, TEDx speaker, columnist and mentor, Kiran Manral in previous avatars, has been a journalist, researcher, festival curator and entrepreneur. She has published books across genres in fiction and non-fiction. She has received multiple awards, such as the Women Achievers Award by Young Environmentalists Association, the International Women’s Day Award 2018 from Indian Council for UN Relations supported by the Ministry of Women and Child Welfare, Government of India, for excellence in the field of writing.

She lives in Mumbai with her family.
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To claim this offer (and view all the other offers), please scan this code, or go to https://www.fln.org.in/librarylove/
FLN is a collective of grassroots organisations and practitioners building, operating and advocating for free, anti-caste and feminist libraries that guarantee equal access to reading, learning and information resources for all. 
We work with governments, civil society, national and international library associations, publishers and literary groups and individuals, to create policy and implement free-library curricula and models, and to reform India’s public library system.

Library Love (14–28 February) 
Our storyteller friends are making an array of generous offers in exchange for donations to FLN.
Funds raised will go towards curating book sets for grassroots libraries, training library leaders, research and advocacy, and paying our team of educators, organisers, trainers, researchers and managers.
Donations to Free Libraries Network FLN are exempt from tax under section 80G of the Income Tax Act (old regime). FLN can only accept donations within India and in Indian currency.
The image is a poster with several elements.
In large text at centre are these words:
Our vision of a free library does not stop at delivering excellent library services to all. It must also be anti-caste, gender and disability-inclusive, and do the essential work of welcoming into reading and thinking, those who have been historically excluded.
FLN asserts that free libraries are a matter of right.
In a band across the bottom are two logos.
On the left, one logotype has a stylised image of three books on a shelf and next to it, the name of the organisation, Free Libraries Network, India & South Asia in dark blue letters.
On the right, the second logotype, which has a stylised image of a blue gift box opening and little red book flying out of it, and the name of the campaign, Library Love.
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Free Libraries Network - India @freelibsnet.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This is no ordinary L💙VE! Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL K Srilata is making an amazing offer. So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove
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K Srilata
Author
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For a donation of INR 2000, you and nine other donors will get a three hour poetry workshop over zoom. 
In a band across the bottom are two logos.
On the left, one logotype has a stylised image of three books on a shelf and next to it, the name of the organisation, Free Libraries Network, India & South Asia in dark blue letters.
On the right, the second logotype, which has a stylised image of a blue gift box opening and little red book flying out of it, and the name of the campaign, Library Love.Writing the Palimpsest Poem, an introductory level online workshop meant for those who have a strong interest in poetry, consisting of a presentation, close readings of poems, the introduction of a writing exercise and writing time.
Date: 5th April 2025
Time: 9.30 am -12.30 pm
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K Srilata is a poet, fiction writer, translator and academic. Her novel ‘Table for Four’ (Penguin, India) was longlisted in 2009 for the Man Asian Literary Prize.  Srilata’s most recent collection of poems ‘Three Women in a Single-Room House’ was published by Sahitya Akademi in 2023.  Her critically acclaimed book ‘This Kind of Child: The ‘Disability’ Story’ (Westland) documents the disability experience. Forthcoming from Westland is her collection of poems based on the Mahabharata.

Below that, a QR Code, and these words:
To claim this offer (and view all the other offers), please scan this code, or go to https://www.fln.org.in/librarylove/
FLN is a collective of grassroots organisations and practitioners building, operating and advocating for free, anti-caste and feminist libraries that guarantee equal access to reading, learning and information resources for all. 
We work with governments, civil society, national and international library associations, publishers and literary groups and individuals, to create policy and implement free-library curricula and models, and to reform India’s public library system.

Library Love (14–28 February) 
Our storyteller friends are making an array of generous offers in exchange for donations to FLN.
Funds raised will go towards curating book sets for grassroots libraries, training library leaders, research and advocacy, and paying our team of educators, organisers, trainers, researchers and managers.
Donations to Free Libraries Network FLN are exempt from tax under section 80G of the Income Tax Act (old regime). FLN can only accept donations within India and in Indian currency.
The image is a poster with several elements.
In large text at centre are these words:
Our vision of a free library does not stop at delivering excellent library services to all. It must also be anti-caste, gender and disability-inclusive, and do the essential work of welcoming into reading and thinking, those who have been historically excluded.
FLN asserts that free libraries are a matter of right.
In a band across the bottom are two logos.
On the left, one logotype has a stylised image of three books on a shelf and next to it, the name of the organisation, Free Libraries Network, India & South Asia in dark blue letters.
On the right, the second logotype, which has a stylised image of a blue gift box opening and little red book flying out of it, and the name of the campaign, Library Love.
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Free Libraries Network - India @freelibsnet.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This is no ordinary L💙VE! Our Library Love fundraiser campaigns for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL @bijal.bsky.social is making an amazing offer. So scan the QR code on slide 2 to donate OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove/
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Bijal Vachharajani
Children's book author and editor
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For a donation of INR 5000, I will offer feedback on your picture book manuscript and a 20 minute Zoom call discussion.
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The image is a poster with several elements.
One is a block of text which says:
If you donate Rs 5000, I will offer feedback on your picture book manuscript and a 20 minute Zoom call discussion. 

I will be able to look at picture book manuscripts in English by the end of March and offer a critique and one call about the feedback.
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When Bijal Vachharajani is not reading a children’s book, she’s writing or editing one. She’s the author of multiple planet-friendly, award-winning books including A Cloud Called Bhura, Savi and the Memory Keeper and When Fairyland Lost Its Magic. One of India’s first climate writers for children, she’s a commissioning editor at Pratham Books where she dreams up diverse, multi-lingual picture books.
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To claim this offer (and view all the other offers), please scan this code, or go to https://www.fln.org.in/librarylove/
In a band across the bottom are two logos.
On the left, one logotype has a stylised image of three books on a shelf and next to it, the name of the organisation, Free Libraries Network, India & South Asia in dark blue letters.
On the right, the second logotype, which has a stylised image of a blue gift box opening and little red book flying out of it, and the name of the campaign, Library Love.
A block of text describes the work that the Free Libraries Network does:
FLN is a collective of grassroots organisations and practitioners building, operating and advocating for free, anti-caste and feminist libraries that guarantee equal access to reading, learning and information resources for all. 
We work with governments, civil society, national and international library associations, publishers and literary groups and individuals, to create policy and implement free-library curricula and models, and to reform India’s public library system.

Library Love (14–28 February) 
Our storyteller friends are making an array of generous offers in exchange for donations to FLN.
Funds raised will go towards curating book sets for grassroots libraries, training library leaders, research and advocacy, and paying our team of educators, organisers, trainers, researchers and managers.
Donations to Free Libraries Network FLN are exempt from tax under section 80G of the Income Tax Act (old regime). FLN can only accept donations within India and in Indian currency.
In a band across the bottom are two logos.
On the left, one logotype has a stylised image of three books on a shelf and next to it, the name of the organisation, Free Libraries Network, India & South Asia in dark blue letters.
On the right, the second logotype, which has a stylised image of a blue gift box opening and little red book flying out of it, and the name of the campaign, Library Love.
The image is a poster with several elements.
In large text at centre are these words:
Our vision of a free library does not stop at delivering excellent library services to all. It must also be anti-caste, gender and disability-inclusive, and do the essential work of welcoming into reading and thinking, those who have been historically excluded.
FLN asserts that free libraries are a matter of right.
In a band across the bottom are two logos.
On the left, one logotype has a stylised image of three books on a shelf and next to it, the name of the organisation, Free Libraries Network, India & South Asia in dark blue letters.
On the right, the second logotype, which has a stylised image of a blue gift box opening and little red book flying out of it, and the name of the campaign, Library Love.
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Free Libraries Network - India @freelibsnet.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This is no ordinary L💙VE! We kick off our Library Love fundraiser to campaign for the 'Right To Read' through free, anti-caste & feminist public libraries #ForALL Anjum Hasan is starting us off in style! #Swipe & scan the QR code on slide 2 OR Click www.fln.org.in/librarylove/
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Anjum Hasan
Author and former editor
Next to it is this text:
For a donation of INR 4000, I will constructively critique a piece of your writing.
In a band across the bottom are two logos.
On the left, one logotype has a stylised image of three books on a shelf and next to it, the name of the organisation, Free Libraries Network, India & South Asia in dark blue letters.
On the right, the second logotype, which has a stylised image of a blue gift box opening and little red book flying out of it, and the name of the campaign, Library Love.
The image is a poster with several elements.
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Your piece could be fiction or non-fiction and not longer than 10,000 (ten thousand) words. I will also offer reading suggestions and publishing advice.

You can email me your writing and I will send detailed feedback within a fortnight.
Next to it is a bio of the person making the offer:
Anjum Hasan's novels are The Cosmopolitans, Neti, Neti and Lunatic in my Head, and the short story collections A Day in the Life and Difficult Pleasures. She has also published a book of poems called Street on the Hill. Her latest novel, History’s Angel recently won the Godrej LitLive! Fiction Book of the Year and FICCI Fiction Book of the Year awards. Anjum writes for various publications including the Los Angeles Review of Books and the New York Review of Books.
Below that, a QR Code, and these words:
To claim this offer (and view all the other offers), please scan this code, or go to https://www.fln.org.in/librarylove/
In a band across the bottom are two logos.
On the left, one logotype has a stylised image of three books on a shelf and next to it, the name of the organisation, Free Libraries Network, India & South Asia in dark blue letters.
On the right, the second logotype, which has a stylised image of a blue gift box opening and little red book flying out of it, and the name of the campaign, Library Love.

The image is a poster with several elements.

A block of text describes the work that the Free Libraries Network does:
FLN is a collective of grassroots organisations and practitioners building, operating and advocating for free, anti-caste and feminist libraries that guarantee equal access to reading, learning and information resources for all. 
We work with governments, civil society, national and international library associations, publishers and literary groups and individuals, to create policy and implement free-library curricula and models, and to reform India’s public library system.

Next to it, a block of text describes the Library Love project:
Library Love (14–28 February) 
Our storyteller friends are making an array of generous offers in exchange for donations to FLN.
Funds raised will go towards curating book sets for grassroots libraries, training library leaders, research and advocacy, and paying our team of educators, organisers, trainers, researchers and managers.
Donations to Free Libraries Network FLN are exempt from tax under section 80G of the Income Tax Act (old regime). FLN can only accept donations within India and in Indian currency.
In a band across the bottom are two logos.
On the left, one logotype has a stylised image of three books on a shelf and next to it, the name of the organisation, Free Libraries Network, India & South Asia in dark blue letters.
On the right, the second logotype, which has a stylised image of a blue gift box opening and little red book flying out of it, and the name of the campaign, Library Love.
The image is a poster with several elements.
In large text at centre are these words:
Our vision of a free library does not stop at delivering excellent library services to all. It must also be anti-caste, gender and disability-inclusive, and do the essential work of welcoming into reading and thinking, those who have been historically excluded.
FLN asserts that free libraries are a matter of right.
In a band across the bottom are two logos.
On the left, one logotype has a stylised image of three books on a shelf and next to it, the name of the organisation, Free Libraries Network, India & South Asia in dark blue letters.
On the right, the second logotype, which has a stylised image of a blue gift box opening and little red book flying out of it, and the name of the campaign, Library Love.
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Free Libraries Network - India @freelibsnet.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
It’s the season of love! Revolutionary library love! Share this with your friends & family (in India) and get them to follow us here in large numbers! As for the rest? All will be revealed tomorrow 🥸🩵
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous. I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them. 🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
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