Hollywood actress Emma Watson has often been touted as a book fairy, for planting books in New York and London subways, and hiding them on the streets of Paris. In fact in 2016, she dropped a 100 copies of Mom & Me & Mom by the late Maya Angelou, as part of Hollie Fraser’s Books on the Underground (globally called Books on the Move) initiative, which attempts to encourage people to read books while travelling.
This event that happened thousands of kilometres away struck a chord with Delhi-based Shruti Sharma. An avid-reader herself, Sharma was convinced that Delhi Metro was a space to create a similar network. The idea came to reality in 2017 when Shruti dropped her first book, The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, with the help of her husband Tarun Chauhan.
