Press & Media

TCLP has been featured a number of times over the years in the media through reportage and contributions by volunteers, trustees and staff members to various publications.

2023

PUBLIC LIBRARIES MUST BE FREE! FREE LIBRARIES NETWORK (FLN) AT THE G20 - Kafila

Can free public libraries catalyse communities? - India Development Review (IDR)

Free Libraries Are A Big Hope In Need Of Policy Support - Livemint

Why free libraries are crucial for a democracy - Mint Lounge

Free libraries for all: Community Library Project’s appeal to government - The Indian Express

If The Public Library System Needs To Be Effective, It Needs To Reimagine It's Reader - IndiaSpend

Why Libraries Are Liberating Spaces - The Indian Express

2022

To laze with a book under winter sunshine, on sofas and durries - Indian Express
Books giveaway, rap performances, art workshops, and more by The Community Library Project - The Hindu

2021

• A Pandemic Year for Women: For a community library and its members, what is lost and found in a lockdown - Firstpost
• How anger and necessity led to this free library's digital turn — Mint Lounge
• Free Library Festival Begins In City Tomorrow - The Hindu
• One For The Books: The TCLP Annual Free Library Festival Is Back - The Indian Express
• Of, by and for the community: Building a library for everyone - Times Of India

2020

• Interview with Mridula Koshy — Paper Planes
• A Reading Room Of Their Own — Mail Today
• An Obligation To Build Libraries — All About Book Publishing
• Interview with Mridula Koshy — New Indian Express
• How does a library function under the pandemic? — Scroll.in
• The Story of India's Community Libraries - Spurned by State, Struck by Lockdown — eShe.in
• How the founders of community libraries for children are raising money during the pandemic - Scroll.in
• Get booked for a cause - Mid-Day
• Spread the good word about The Community Library Project — The Hindu
• Each one, teach one! Vidya Balan, Dia Mirza, Abhishek Bachchan auction personal belongings in a fundraiser — Mid-Day

2019

• How The Community Library Project Is Bridging The Knowledge Divide — She The People
• From online to the library: When kids swap surfing for browsing — Times of India
• 9 Best Libraries in Gurgaon — MagicPin
• For the next generation to think in Hindi, we need to let them read more — Michael Creighton, The Indian Express
• Encouraging the reading habit in children — Hindustan Times

2018

• Books in their hand, dreams in their head — Citizen Matters
• The book in your hands — The Hindu Businessline
• Reading at a library — Business Standard
• Kunal Ray on community libraries — The Hindu
• Children learn to tell stories at this community library — The Indian Express
• Community Library: A New Kind Of Love — Mridula Koshy, Goethe Institut
• A Library For All — Divya Kannan, Bookworm Goa

2017

• On Gurgaon’s free community library — The Hindustan Times
• Spread the joy of reading — LBB
• READ Alliance interview with Mridula Koshy — READ Alliance
• Community libraries are an important escape for children — Scroll.in
• Why India needs a library movement — Mridula Koshy, The Caravan
  (The article in its entirety can be read on our site at this link)

2016

• Encouraging critical thinking through community libraries — The Better India

2015

• 10 Things I Learned By Volunteering At A Community Library Project — Purnima Rao, Huffington Post
• How children are learning to read books in a new way at a library just for them — Mridula Koshy, Scroll.in
• That Thing About Creating Nalandas — Mridula Koshy, Yahoo News