Grabbing hold of the steaming cuppa has become more worthwhile in Mumbai’s cafés as a new initiative called Cappuccino Readings (CR) combines your love for caffeine and literature. This Thursday, Dr Nandini Sahu will launch her book, Suvarnarekha (An Anthology of Indian Women Poets Writing in English) in association with the Cappuccino Readings as well as Culture Beat of the Press Club.

The motive is to include amateur poets read alongside (second right) Ranjit Hoskote, Jane Bhandari, Hemant Divate, Annie Zaidi (with mic), Dominic Alapat and Jennifer Robertson, as in this previous session

Anjali Purohit, a writer and a painter, and the brain behind CR, shares, “Café readings by writers is not a novel concept. However, we do not have such a tradition in our city. There are, of course, many cultural programmes that are held in pubs, restaurants and restobars.” Jaded with the usage of such spaces, she shares, “I needed a space that would have literary reading in focus with the ‘something’ (coffee) on the side. Thus, the name ‘Cappuccino Readings’.”