I’ve been a reader my whole life. Books have brought me immense solace and fulfillment in some of my roughest times. But being at liberty to read whatever you want, whenever you want, is not something everyone is born into. The Community Library Project (TCLP) exists to dismantle that inequity. Working tirelessly in the poor neighbourhoods of Delhi, TCLP has free libraries, ensuring that thousands of people have access to books, to reading, to thinking. Especially communities who have been excluded from it. After all, authoritarianism requires obedience, and obedience becomes very difficult when people have heads full of ideas. Yesterday, Hansal and I did a read-aloud of When Golu Goes Missing at one of TCLP’s libraries in South Ex (as a part of their Summer in the Library programme). By the end of the session, Hansal and I couldn’t stop smiling and talking about what each kid in the session had to say. They wanted to know why Golu was acting the way he was. Their questions and gues...