Kitaab Club

Kitaab Club NGO | Reading community in India | Libraries | Workshops | Book Clubs |

Kitaab Club was founded by a group of students from Hindu College, Delhi University in 2014. Since then we have organised hundreds of students from Delhi University into teams conducting educational campaigns in under resourced schools in remote villages in India. Our program has spread over five states including Uttarakhand Punjab Odisha Rajasthan and Delhi over the span of the past five years. O

ur volunteers live in the village for 10 days every few months and work on improving literacy, comprehension and confidence through activity-based teaching modules, and the excessive use of storybooks, multimedia, rallies and performances by the children. These leads to an increased participation, enthusiasm and confidence at the school level. Our organisation has donated over 1000 storybooks and is designing creative reading centres and libraries in village schools to ensure children develop reading skills. The Organisation has moved on to conduct campaigns on menstrual hygiene, safe touch and health. They are also busy developing teacher training modules and conducting confidence building in regional universities. Kitaab Club has gathered the support of similar organisations in the social sector such as Bal Sahyog, Uttaranchal Association of North America, Sewa-THDC and others and are looking forward to positively expand the movement in the time to come.

This month we are reading Ghosted by Eric Chopra, a deep dive into the history of Delhi and the histories and myths arou...
31/03/2026

This month we are reading Ghosted by Eric Chopra, a deep dive into the history of Delhi and the histories and myths around its haunted places.

We are excited to be joined by the author himself as we talk about the book and our experience of reading it. Eric is also a historian so we look forward to asking him questions about the city and learning about his research process.

Registration Link in Bio to join

[bookclub, history, delhi, kitaab]

We’re excited to support the Bansa Community Library at our upcoming book club meeting in April.The book sale goes live ...
30/03/2026

We’re excited to support the Bansa Community Library at our upcoming book club meeting in April.

The book sale goes live at Kunzum GK this weekend.

Show up for the amazing collection of pre-loved books with titles ranging from classics to rare-finds.

All proceeds will go towards the Women’s Readership Enhancement Program at the Bansa Community Library, U.P.

Registration Link out tomorrow
for details

[Community libraries, FLN, Free Libraries, Kitaab, Bansa community library, CSR,]

24/03/2026

Poetry got teeth this weekend

[Delhi, Kitaab, Jaded Clowns, Punk]

19/03/2026

This Sunday, Kitaab Club and Jaded Clowns pay homage to POETRY and poets from the PUNK movement.

Event Structure:
Guided reading and discussion hosted by Kitaab Club of selected works from the punk literary canon

Live Set by The Jaded Clowns, a collective that believes sound can carry the same urgency as a poem with performances drawing on the spirit of punk.

17/03/2026

This March, our book club pays homage to POETRY and specifically poets from the PUNK canon.

We’ll talk about what punk stands for: Radical self-expression, defiance of authority, and a refusal to conform to societal norms.

The spotlight for the evening is a live set by the band Jaded Clowns, a collective that believes sound can carry the same urgency as a poem. Their performances draw on the spirit of punk: immediate, raw and resistant to polish.

Open to all:

Whether you know all about the genre or are just here to explore, we would love to share the space with you and hear your take.

[ Ticket Link in BIO ]
P.S. Expect NOISE

24/02/2026

...bitter coffee and arguing with strangers over a fictional character.

Hit the link in bio to join the club!

[Book club, reading circle, Delhi]

24/02/2026

Join the coolest Book Club in town!

We will be meeting this Sunday to sip coffee and talk about last year’s booker prize winner ‘Flesh by David Szalay’. In ...
16/02/2026

We will be meeting this Sunday to sip coffee and talk about last year’s booker prize winner ‘Flesh by David Szalay’. In case you haven’t read the book, drop by to chit chat with fellow book lovers.

Bonus: We’re excited to be collaborating with our favourite bookstore for this one. Shoutout to our venue partners .

Registration link in bio.

(book club, reading circle, kitaab club, delhi)

13/02/2026

Our January Book Club meeting was about going back to the basics. Good people, a great book and a sunny afternoon. It was long overdue for us to have a meeting old style, and ofcourse the charm of Delhi lies in its public parks. So we chattered away nestled on some old chaddars and with TheDaak as company, conversations were undeniably sharp.

If you couldn’t make it, details of our upcoming meeting will be out soon.

Join Kitaab via the link in bio

(Book club, kitaab club, reading circle, book clubs in delhi)

Bookworms don't have a buying problem, we have a "I must own every book ever written" problem.
21/01/2026

Bookworms don't have a buying problem, we have a "I must own every book ever written" problem.

Something about Poonachi feels unsettling, tender, human.This month, we are reading Poonachi by Perumal Murugan.A small ...
02/01/2026

Something about Poonachi feels unsettling, tender, human.

This month, we are reading Poonachi by Perumal Murugan.
A small novel about a goat, written with the moral weight of a civilisation.

Poonachi appears simple - a village, a household, an animal, but it quietly examines power, caste, labour, and survival. Murugan writes without spectacle. Violence here is structural, everyday, almost invisible, which is precisely what makes it difficult to sit with.

This is not an easy book. That is why we’re reading it together.
Book Club meet: 11th January

Inside the architecture of publishing.We spent the evening at listening closely to how books are shaped long before the...
28/12/2025

Inside the architecture of publishing.

We spent the evening at listening closely to how books are shaped long before they reach readers, and how stories are positioned in the public imagination.

Up close, we saw the invisible labour, the long thinking, and the vision that comes with handling literature at scale.

Glad to have experienced the spaces where reading culture is quietly designed.

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