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.

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