By Isabel Allende. Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars.’

By Beena Vijayalakshmy. You do not have to name English books to sound well-read. Embrace what moves you. Speak what matters to you. You do not need to hide yourself.

By Beena Vijayalakshmy. A heartbreakingly beautiful, brutally honest book that unsettles as much as it moves. Arundhati Roy remains a masterful storyteller.

By Beena Vijayalakshmi. If The Book Thief  teaches us anything, it is that the impulse to destroy stories is ancient, but so too is the courage to save them. Just as Liesel Meminger reached into the flames, surrounded by Nazis and fanatics who were burning books, to rescue a single book, we too must reach into this moment and rescue the stories being pulled from our shelves.