What she hosts
Readathon Live is a small reading circle for independent readers aged eight to twelve. Sarangi runs the hour — the check-in, the game, the book pitch, the talking. Arasu is on every call for safety and to keep time, but the circle belongs to the children in it. Season One has finished. Season Two begins on Saturday, 22 August 2026.
- Role
- Host, Readathon Live — Seasons One and Two
- The circle
- Up to ten independent readers, aged eight to twelve
- The hour
- Saturdays, 8–9 am, over video — eight weeks, Express then Create
- Learning
- Unschooled. No syllabus, no prescribed reading, no book list to get through.
Full details of the circle, and how to join Season Two, are on the Readathon page.
A map of her reading
Not a tally. A map. Some territories she has walked all over; others she has barely stepped into. The interesting part is the second list — that is where the next few years go.
Well travelled
- Indian stories and mythology
- Fantasy and science fiction
- The old classics
- Non-fiction that isn’t dull
- Illustrated and graphic novels
- Adventure, especially in wild places
Barely stepped into
- Poetry
- Plays
- Mysteries and detectives
- Books translated from other languages
- Sport
- Novels written in verse
The plan is simple: she picks an unlit territory, and we find the way in through a writer she already trusts.
The writers she goes back to
These are the names that recur most on her shelf — the writers whose next book she picks up without being asked.
Just finished
The five most recently closed. Three of them — When I Met the Mama Bear, The Tree of Stories and Candid Tales — are on the Parag Honour List, which is the closest thing Indian children’s publishing has to a mark of quality. She did not know that when she picked them up.