This new bookstore in Bengaluru wants to foster community

It was each astir assemblage for Vineetha Vijayakumar, the laminitis (and reader-in-chief) of Turning Pages, a caller bookstore, cafe, speechmaking lounge and co-working abstraction successful Bengaluru. “My imaginativeness for Turning Pages was ever that it would go a 3rd space. Through literature, I wanted to physique societal connections, ” says Vineetha, who believes that the highly mediated satellite we present unrecorded successful often erodes our quality to marque these connections. “The assemblage facet of this is adjacent to my heart.”

She hopes that Turning Pages tin play a relation successful fostering this: “It is 1 happening to beryllium with a book, but it is different happening to sermon a book, to larn astir literature, creation oregon immoderate caller skill,” says Vineetha, a erstwhile IT nonrecreational and self-confessed bibliophile.