Bombay Book Club
Learn, unlearn, relearn.
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Bombay Book Club Members
- Jetu Lalvani
- Akhil Shahani
- Paolo Marri
- Paula McGlynn
- Leena Sonne
- Laurenz Littmann
- Sunu Aibara
- 24 past members
London Book Club Members
- Jetu Lalvani
- Britha Modi
- Jonas von Stedingk
- Neville Grant
- Chetan Modi
- Jane Sessenwein
- Steve Packwood
- Susan Cummings
- Gulnar Vaswani
- Anjela McShane
- Francesca Di Pasquantonio
Guidelines
Objective:
To read a book, watch a documentary or listen to a talk, on a topic of substance, every month, and discuss it over lunch, tea, drinks, or dinner.
Membership:
- Membership will be no less than 6 and no more than 12.
- New members may be introduced by anyone; acceptance to be unanimous.
- Members from diverse ideological backgrounds are preferable.
- A member missing 4 meetings in a row, may consider leaving the club to make way for new members to join.
- Any person missing 6 meetings in a row, will be considered to have left the club.
Confidentiality:
- Chatham house rules.
- Avoid discussing anything about book club externally.
Meetings:
- Meetings could be at members’ homes or trying out different restaurants.
- Meetings will be around 3 hours.
- All mobiles off during meetings.
- Members and guests attending must have read the current book.
- Meetings will be on the last Sunday of the month at 5pm, but may be changed to suit all.
- The meeting time and place may be changed, if over 50% of the members decide so.
Communication:
- Communication should be through email and WhatsApp.
Books:
- The subjects are non-fiction –Economics, Education, Environment, History, Psychology, Science, Technology, and the likes of.
- All books must be in printand available in paperback.
- Books should be of a reasonable number of pages, as decided by the members.
- Every regular member gets to choose a book in turn and gives a choice of 3 to 5 books.
- The book will then be selected by majority, witht the chooser only as a casting vote.
- A book may be discussed, over more than one meeting, if over 50% of the members decide so.
Discussions:
- The first 10 or 15 minutes may be used for admin.
- All views are to be discussed without prejudice and judgment, but as an exploration.
- All views of each member are to be heard, and each person to be given their turn.
- What was new; what one disagrees with; real world examples; what will one do diffrerently going forward.
- Discussions should occupy over 50% of the meeting time:
- What were the key insights of the book?
- What was new for you?
- What did you disagree with?
- What are examples around you?
- What will you do differently going forward?
- Rate the book – 1. Must read, 2. Nice to read, 3. Avoid. (for content and not form)
Quorum:
- The Quorum will be not less than 50% of the members.
Guests:
- Members are entitled to bring one guest with prior intimation.
- Guests who are experts in the subject of the current book are welcome.
Have fun!