We’re two kindred spirits whose love for books have no bounds! We are trying to build a safe place for book lovers like us who can share more and enrich us, and also keep the fire of reading burning. We also want to get to know each of you, and hopefully can call you friends! Happy reading, always!
Despite working a 9-5, Pracheta’s love for reading has never taken a backseat. She reads anything that she can get her hands on. To the point, it has been noticed that she often ends up reading ingredients lists off of food packages! She is fiercely passionate about literature and has never shied away from Socrates, Sartre, or Satyajit. Though she loves reading fantasy and fictions mostly, you will at times see her with books that talk about the socio-political, and the geo-political affairs of the world. To add to her quirks, she ends up having heaving debates with others about her political ideology, which is also something that she formed in her head after reading Mao, Lenin, and Marx.
Also, she is one big Potterhead, who is still awaiting her letter from Hogwarts. Despite being an introvert, Pracheta will at times try and strike up a conversation with a random stranger who’s holding a book. So to sum up, Pracheta, or (Prach) as she likes to be called, is a sucker for the magic that is weaved between pages.
Footnote: She actually finished reading most of Austen’s work by the time she was 11 years old. A feat that she is proud of till this day.
Nisha is a thrilled and excited founder of the club and cannot wait to dive into new literary adventures with all of you. By day, she helps people manage their credits although she cannot do any better with her own which is one of the greatest ironies of her life. She’s a nature enthusiast who finds endless inspiration in the great outdoors, a fact that she has recently discovered. She also likes to call herself an amateur artist who loves capturing the beauty of a sunrise or the intricate details of a leaf and does a great job of translating that beauty into amateur paintings or photographs.
You’ll likely find her curled up with a good book or spending quality time at her local park seeking canine companions. She and her partner share a love for cozy reading nooks and the occasional stroll through the neighbourhood park. Books, painting, photography, and walks in the great unknown —these are the ingredients of her ideal day.
She gets all sappy about the Regency era, and quotes C.S. Lewis pretty frequently. She, not unlike her friend Pracheta, is also an Austen fan. A tidbit that they bonded over on the first day of their college life. She reads John Keats for fun, and laments over how he was born in a different time, because otherwise she could have been his muse!
These two have known each other since the first day of their college life. Their first interaction was not even remotely warm and friendly. And, then things changed. How, when, where and why, are really tough questions to answer. They found in each other, a confidante, a friend, a roommate, and a lot more that are sort of hard to articulate. They have now known each other for more than over a decade. There have been times that they haven’t talked to each other for months. Why you ask? Oh, because that’s them. They fight, they scream, some time avoid confrontation, and other times brush issues under a pretty rugged carpet and forget that such a thing ever existed.
They are poles apart! If one knows them both, they will attest that these two are like USA and Russia, without the Cold War, and the rising political tensions. You get the point. Yet, they couldn’t be more similar. May be that’s upto them to disclose such details.
Ah, what more to say? They have bonded over their love for reading over a decade ago. They would sit beside each other in those English classes in college, and just gobble up everything that they could possibly comprehend at the time, which to be honest was not too much. From those lectures on Orientalism, reading Chinua Achebe, to trying really really hard to like Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie, they have been through quite a lot, and managed to not kill each other.
They are now trying really hard to reach fellow earthlings who love to read just as much as they do. And, they are doing so from opposite ends of the world. Well, from where I stand, I not only wish them the best in their pursuit, but can guarantee that even if all fail, these two will find each other, with cheap wine bottles in hand, and talk away about how simple life was.