{"id":443268,"date":"2021-10-18T12:09:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T06:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=443268"},"modified":"2021-10-18T12:09:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T06:39:24","slug":"take-it-read-it-pass-it-delhi-metros-new-initiative-on-sharing-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/take-it-read-it-pass-it-delhi-metros-new-initiative-on-sharing-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Take it, read it, pass it: Delhi Metro&#8217;s new initiative on sharing books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &amp; Me &amp; Mom by the late Maya Angelou, as part of Hollie Fraser&#8217;s Books on the Underground  (globally called Books on the Move)  initiative, which attempts to encourage people to read books while travelling.<\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &amp; Me &amp; Mom by the late Maya Angelou, as part of Hollie Fraser&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,267,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}