Jawahar Kala Kendra presents Bookaroo Children's Literature Festival's fourth edition in the city. We have fantastic lineup of speakers for you. Ready for a weekend of fun and books? Take a look at the sessions.
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Dear friend, What could be more fun than spending a weekend with books, authors, illustrators and storytellers and in a city like Srinagar? You are in for a treat. Spread over the second weekend of June is a feast of plenty. Twenty seven speakers from 10 cities across India will...
Dear friend, Just a few weeks ago, we received a very interesting mail that set us thinking. I visited Bookaroo Children’s Literature Festival in 2014. It was part of an educational tour from my school in Madhya Pradesh. Getting the freedom to witness the world of creative expressions in the...
Dear friend, Who would have thought - in November 2019, when one departed from Vadodara after a heady first edition of Bookaroo in that city - that it would be three, long years, before one would be able to again set foot in the sylvan settings of Alembic City’s Art...
Dear Bookaroons, We are back! This 13th edition of Bookaroo took longer than we had expected when we signed off in 2019. Much has changed in the world since then. As each one of us slowly emerges from an unprecedented situation that left hardly anybody unscathed in its wake, we...
The city of lakes - one of the country’s greenest - will soon play host to Bookaroo, India's first children's literature festival. For two days in December, the amazing Bharat Bhavan will become the home of Bookaroo in Bhopal. Brought to you in collaboration with the Department of Culture, Government of Madhya Pradesh,...
A round dozen! If we were given to pinching ourselves, we would have been black and blue all over, as we pleasurably contemplate the occasion of Bookaroo's 12th edition in New Delhi. Well, here we are ready to present the 38th overall edition of Bookaroo from the time we began in...
Dear friend, Very often, chance conversations can lead up to meaningful ones that, in turn, lead to new connections and, in the end, a new project – sometimes all very suddenly. Bookaroo’s first edition in Vadodara was born out of two conversations - first with IGNCA (Indira Gandhi National Centre...