Trilogy Curated Bookshop And Library

Trilogy Curated Bookshop And Library

Born of a keen desire to engage with the world, Trilogy has been a kind of Noah’s Ark of books for us. In retrospect, it feels like we were always building our book heaven. Way before we even met each other, I was squirrelling away Moon-Face, the Three Investigators, and innumerable Disney comics, and Meethil, our wildlife photographer (who has an OCD about cleanliness) was neatly covering books about tigers, birds, and Sherlock Holmes, arranging them just so.

In 2013, Meethil and I, started a consultancy for libraries. Our mission was to set up and maintain libraries, a project we kickstarted with a library of Indian wildlife books for a lodge for birders in Rajasthan. A few projects later, after curating collections for libraries and designing communication packages for their readers, The Eternal Library set up its first library and bookshop in Lower Parel, Mumbai, in 2014.

We called it Trilogy, the word symbolises a coming together of the reader, the writer and the book. We held events there, workshops and talks, our youngest member was a few months old, our oldest came over once, had a good look through and then had books picked up by her grandchildren! We worked through the week, 10 to 8 pm, for five beautiful years, taking a break only for the Jaipur Lit Fest and the publishing seminar in Goa. 

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