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The founders

Priya & Chirag

Founders, Pocket Diary Book Club

“It started with six people and a borrowed living room.”

Only you can see these empty frames. Visitors see the masthead without them until a photo is set.

In 2022 we wanted something simpler than a book club: a room where people read aloud, argued kindly, and stayed long after the chapter ended.

No reading lists. No homework. No performance — just the pleasure of a passage read out to people who care what happens next. We opened to a random page because choosing felt like work, and reading should not.

What began in a living room now runs as editions — in reading rooms, in cafés, on hillsides and beside rivers. The format barely changed. We still read aloud. We still dramatize the good bits. Somebody still forgets to return a book, and we still forgive them.

Founded Ahmedabad, 2022
Editions held Fifty-nine
Readers on the list One thousand five hundred
Books on the shelf Eight hundred fifty-five

How it grew

four years, roughly
2022 Six people, one borrowed room The first edition had no name and no plan. Somebody brought biscuits. We read two chapters aloud and argued about the ending for an hour.
2023 The library began arriving Members started leaving books behind on purpose. We stopped calling it a collection and started calling it a library.
2024 We took it outdoors Read & Roam started as one trek with three paperbacks in a rucksack. Reading on a hillside turned out to be the point.
2025 Workshops, quietly Teams and campuses asked for the same evening we were already having. We kept the format and simply set more chairs out.

If you have been meaning to read more, or simply want an evening that feels unhurried, come to an edition. Bring nothing. We will hand you a book.

Priya Chirag
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