Nagpur · Vidarbha
We are a registered Section 8 Company (non-profit) that organizes and manages school reading programmes, College book review sessions, Literature Festivals and a book exchange, so that a love of reading isn't a privilege of geography or income — it's a right of every child and neighbourhood in the region.
वाचनाचा मंत्र
वाचाल
तर
वाचाल
Read, and you will survive-thrive.
The verb वाचणे means both to read and to survive — so the line says both at once.
Why we exist
Across Nagpur's neighbourhoods and the smaller towns around it, the nearest library is often a bus ride away, and a personal book collection is a luxury most households skip. Vidarbha Literary Foundation was founded to close that gap directly — not with charity, but with infrastructure: shelves people can actually reach, a system that treats every borrower with dignity, and a reading culture that starts in the classroom and follows children home.
What we run
A free, credit-based community book exchange program. Members bring one book from their personal collection and exchange it for one book from the thousands on our shelves! All Facilitated by a simple App harnessing the power of technology.
Structured lesson plans and discussion guides for school classrooms, built around full novels rather than excerpts, so students experience a complete story and the satisfaction of finishing a book they chose to keep reading.
We review the books on the college book club's reading list and run sessions that teach students how to conduct a review of their own — moving past plot summary toward a real argument about what a book does well and why it lands.
Each year the Foundation gathers readers and authors under one roof for the Vidarbha Literature Festival — a few days packed with author interactions, on-stage book reviews, author interviews, reader engagement, and much more.
Join us
Clear a shelf at home and give a story a second reader. We accept fiction and non-fiction in English, Hindi, and Marathi.
Help run a reading session, sort donations, or support an outreach visit at a partner school.
Contributions go directly toward shelving, school materials, and keeping every exchange free to join.