Project Bibliotherapy x Nilanjana Roy: Chapters From Our Childhoods

A special 'Guided Reading Meditation' by Project Bibliotherapy featuring Nilanjana Roy, author of Black River, and two award-winning fantasy novels, The Wildings and The Hundred Names of Darkness.

The theme for this event is The Joy of Reading: Chapters From Our Childhoods. 

• We start with a discussion on the joy of reading that shaped our childhoods, our favourite books and the role of books in shaping one's imagination, creativity and worldview. 
• This will be followed by a Guided Reading Meditation where Nilanjana would read from one of her favourite books from childhood.
• A Q&A and candid conversation with her follows.
• Kunzum will have her books available for sale, and she will be signing books for attendees as well.
• At Kunzum, you get a coffee with cookies on the house whenever you buy a book :)

About the author:

Nilanjana Roy is an award-winning author, columnist, literary critic with a rich and diverse body of work. Her most recent novel, Black River, is noir fiction that explores the aftermath of a terrible murder in the border village of Teetarpur, and grief, love and friendship in times of ferment and rising tensions. Her first novel, The Wildings, won the Shakti Bhatt First Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the Commonwealth Book Prize among others.

She also writes about books and the reading life with the Financial Times and was a contributing opinion writer on gender and other subjects for The New York Times. She helped to set up the Indian publishing house, Westland Books, as its first chief editor, was a founder member of PEN Delhi, and has served on several literary juries, festival boards, gender and literacy trusts. She is currently working on her much-awaited next novel, after the critically acclaimed noir fiction novel, 'Black River'.

Before she became a full-time novelist, she worked as a food columnist, a travel writer, a reporter and columnist on gender and gender violence, an editor, a publisher, was briefly a legal researcher, taught even more briefly in a nursery school and spent several happy years as an intrepid blogger, Hurree Babu over at the now defunct Kitabkhana.

About Project Bibliotherapy:

Project Bibliotherapy is a company whose mission is to revive the world's reading culture. Founded by Nitin Goel in 2020, and joined by Nandini Swaminathan as its co-founder, the Project has grown to be India's first company focused on empowering people to read more, read better. It runs a one-year global reading membership program crafted for busy schedules in a world of unending distractions. It includes their Curious Readers' Companions, which are designed to open up a whole new world of fascinating things to read by some of the world's best authors and writers.

They have collaborated with the Jaipur Literature Festival, the Bangalore Literature Festival and the JCB Prize for Literature. They have also been featured in the media in The New Indian Express, Delhi Times, Midday Mumbai, on Startup Stories by RJ Sarthak on Radio One 94.3 FM, and on the podcast Pops in a Pod. Most recently, they launched a niche curation service, kickstarting it with leap.club, curating 100 titles by female authors for its women-only professional network's offline club in Bandra, Mumbai.