Torchlight: A Journal of Libraries and Bookish Love is a project (and a hope and a fervent desire) that emerged in 2017 to create and make accessible a digital space for nuanced, multi-disciplinary, multi-media, contemporary responses to the domain of the Library, in India. It is envisioned as a portal dedicated to preserving the spirit of free thought and the intense pleasure present in the act of reading.
Torchlight is held together, and afloat, by a loose collective of witty library educators and assorted book lovers who came forth in response to a clarion call from the Bookworm Library (and All The Libraries, symbolically) to pledge their critical faculties, individual passions and introspective hearts to the larger flame.
Aarti Srinivasan
Alia Sinha
Beena Choksi
Jane Sahi
Neha Yadav
Niju Mohan
Samina Mishra
Sujata Noronha
Usha Mukunda
Thank you to Prathamesh Desai for the cool design!
Building on the valuable feedback of our readers, our technical team has been working on improving the website’s user interface and design.
Every quarterly edition will feature 2 sections :
Spotlight: Illuminating ideas around each edition’s theme.
Chiaroscuro: perspectives that inform, educate, entertain, provoke, inspire
The hope is to read the word—and the world, together. To remember that we are not alone.