The Book Café is a virtual interactive space for university students, early career researchers, academicians and grassroots practitioners to share their ideas and insights. It seeks to be a non-judgmental, non-hierarchical, non-adversarial, collaborative space for asking questions, clarifying concepts, sharing and refining ideas/ hypotheses/ ruminations. It is a space to read together, to discover alternative ways of reading and writing and explore possibilities beyond the conventional academic tropes.

Each month a text is selected. The text works as a facilitator, as a companion or a point for departure to raise questions that are of contemporary relevance; to reflect on the lessons from the past for more egalitarian and inclusive futures. Every event of The Book Cafe is an episode, an encounter in its own right. Yet, it forges continuing conversations by picking up threads from earlier discussions.

“We make the road by walking together.”