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Mother’s Day today: Interview with Mysuru Book Clubs Founder Shubha Sanjay Urs

A mother is a good story-teller, reader Amidst the onslaught of social media, we are seeing the slow death of reading habit. However, thanks to the untiring efforts of book-lovers, several organisations…

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Published May 8, 2022 · 8 min read
mother’s day today:  interview

A mother is a good story-teller, reader

Amidst the onslaught of social media, we are seeing the slow death of reading habit. However, thanks to the untiring efforts of book-lovers, several organisations are bringing back the love for books. An entrepreneur, a textile consultant and a keen book-lover, Shubha Sanjay Urs has been in the forefront of promoting literary activities. Founder, Managing Trustee and Chairperson of the Mysuru Book Clubs-2015 and Mysuru Literary Forum Charitable Trust, run on a not-for-profit model, Shubha has been successful in putting Mysuru on the world map of the book-reading world. Apart from being at the helm of literary activities, she is the mother of a seven-year-old boy. On the occasion of Mother’s Day today, Shubha tells Star of Mysore how a mother is a good story-teller and a reader herself and the role Book Clubs play in establishing this fact.—Ed

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