The Importance of Book Communities | Booknerds Podcast
-Rachna Kalra(Founder Windword & Founder of Delhi & Gurgaon chapter of the global Silent Book Club)
-Shibani Sethi (Director, GurgaonMoms Book Club)
-Arunima Mazumdar (Founder, Dokusha Book Club)
The founders/curators/managers of various book communities got together to discuss
- The relevance of Book Communities
- The challenges faced in running Book Communities
- How to make the reading experience better for readers
- Book Recommendations
and more...
Rachna Kalra
Rachna is the Founder of WindWord, a marketing and communications consultancy that specialises in publicity and promotions for books. She has over two decades of experience in publishing. She’s worked with Penguin India, Pan Macmillan India, Oxford University Press, and Juggernaut Books and consulted with Hachette India, Amazon Westland, HarperCollins India, Simon & Schuster India, and Pan Macmillan India. She also works directly with authors for their book promotions and consults on other communication projects.
Rachna also runs the Delhi & Gurgaon Chapter of the global Silent Book Club which brings together readers who want to read books of their own choice in the company of other book lovers – in silence.
Shibani Sethi
Shibani is a seasoned corporate professional with a passion for literature that knows no bounds. With two decades of corporate experience and navigating the intricacies of the business world, she has honed her skills in leadership and team management, creating valuable assets in both the corporate realm and in the world of literature.
Her love for books extends beyond the boardroom nurturing an environment of culture and the love for books across all genres- leading a books community for the effervescent GurgaonMoms, currently driven by over 42,000 women.
Arunima Mazumdar (Founder, Dokusha Book Club) is a marketing and communications specialist and an independent journalist with over 15 years of experience across writing, editing and publishing. She has worked with Westland Books, The Times of India and Doordarshan News. Currently, she onboards new clients for Moe’s Art, a boutique communications agency, and actively writes on art and culture for Hindustan Times, The Indian Express, The Hindu, and Scroll.in.
Arunima is the founder of the Dokusha Book Club - an online book club dedicated to Japanese literature translated into English.
We had a ball with the effervescent and awesome ladies in the frame, I hope you also do while watching/listening!
Bookstore and Venue Partner : Kunzum
Wellness Partner: JiViSa Wellness
Host Rohan Raj (Podcaster and Co-founder, Booknerds) Rohan Raj is a seasoned podcaster, reader, and co-founder, of Booknerds, Rohan has moderated over 150 offline book sessions and hosted over 100 podcasts since the inception of Booknerds, a literary startup that he co-founded with his wife Neha Raj in October 2015 to revolutionize how book lovers read and engage with authors which is a community of 25K now and growing.
In the past eight years, he has eminent authors like Kabir Bedi, Samir Soni, Maria Goretti,Nikita Singh,Sidhartha Mallya,Ashdin Doctor,Karuna Ezara Parikh, Namita Gokhale, Anand Neelakantan,,Rashmi Bansal, Sudha Murty, Shivani Sibal, Vir Sanghvi, Devdutt Pattanaik, Mayank Shekhar, Alan Rosling, Easterine Kire, Kevin Missal, Moin Mir,Andy Griffiths,Tricia Elam Walker and many more on the Booknerds Podcast.
Rohan has been featured in the Times of India, The Statesman, National Herald and many more newspapers, while coordinating and curating various book sessions for libraries, schools, colleges and lit fests. When he is not reading books or writing about books on LinkedIn, he is found spending time with his two daughters.
The Booknerds Podcast has reached out to more than 200,000 readers.
Rohan has been featured on Doordarshan and by Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
