If you haven’t already heard from our newsletter, the form to be filled if you’d like to participate in Broke Bibliophiles Bangalore Secret Santa 2022 is here! Last year, we had around 200 happy Santas and Santees partake in the book-gift-giving and receiving and it was a lot of fun to see! :) Broke Bibliophiles Bangalore Secret Santa 2022 form - https://forms.gle/Ww3S1bcJX1dCFqGi8 Some ground rules : The maximum limit for gifting is 1000 INR. ...
Prompt Setter - Madhura Bannerjee Writing Prompt : Five years later, I took the train to [rural/suburban town] again… It’s been a while since our last writing prompt so I didn’t really expect anyone to answer the “Do you want to write something this weekend people?” call, but answer you did. Here are the entries that came in :) A Starting Point by Deepthi Raghuram Five years later, I took the train to Gopura again. The train was coming to a stop and I looked out at the lush green fields, my thoughts on the time flown by - on the decent, innocent girl I had once been. As the train lugged to a stop, I eagerly looked around for my grandfather – and there he was, a still sprightly 89-year-old man, excitedly waiting in welcome on the quaint, tiny platform. It never ceased to amaze me, their warmth, their gentle grace, and I hugged him with 5 years of pent up nostalgia. Listening to his narrative about how the village had changed since I last saw it, I walked beside him, smiling. ...
Prompt Setter - Abhiram Writing Prompt : Rain This was the second Writing Prompt session we called for and the first one that was open to everyone. And we got some amazing submissions :) They’ve all been published exactly as they’ve been submitted, because that’s the point of this exercise and all further Writing Prompt exercises to come. To make you write. And to make you read what you’ve written. So you can cherish it. And be driven to write more and hone that skill that you Know is there. ...
Prompt Setter - Amit Charles Writing Prompt : A Note in a Pre-Loved Book Untitled by Penguin She sat here. Her fingers are blue, with ink and with the pressure of holding down the pen too much. She’s hurting me. She’s grieving. She’s crying. I cannot cry like her, though I wish I could. All I can do is absorb—her words and her need to bleed into me. I came to her a few years ago. We’ve gone to places, her and I, and with her box of pens. I know from tactile memory about her mood now. She takes the softest brush pen in black and green when she is happy. It flows delicately and smooth – like the feather that she holds on the page 17. Her thoughts on an old ink pen, a dark stormy grey bleeder, are slow and calculated. I know then that she has a lot on her mind that she is trying to make sense of. The bleeding rainbow pens, they’re just jokers. They usually come out when she doesn’t have a plan. They flow wild and uncontrolled. I quite like those ruffians honestly. They provide me with a sense of calm to know that she is okay. She likes to hold stuff inside me – much like the feather. There is a photo, a cigarette paper, a handwritten note, and something inside a paper. I don’t know what it is. It is new. ...
March 21st was World Poetry Day and what, with one thing and another, we completely forgot about it. But better late than never, right? So, to tickle our creative sensibilities during this time of quarantining/ social-distancing & also because yesterday was World Poetry Day, we decided to have a little poetry submission thing going! And you people submitted such lovely poems :) In no particular order, here are all the submissions - ...
How We Ran our First Online Broke Bibliophiles Bangalore Event - 1: Identify number of possible participants This is important because it lets you make decisions about the total event’s duration and also, Step 3 depends on this because if you’re using a free service, each of them have a different limit. We have an offline limit of 20. So I decided to keep it at 10-12 this time. We had a max of 12 people at any given period this time. ...