Goan venues provide to those hungry to read

Nitesh Bardipurkar of Prose Patisserie and Café, Nachinola, organises their book events under Prisms of Prose. In the month of April, they discussed ‘Ways of Belonging,’ a book which features stories by 30 writers of the group of writers called ‘Goa Writers’. “The book discussions usually depend on the authors that we invite for the discussion. The first book we discussed at the café was David De Souza’s book, ‘Moira Diversity’ in 2022. So far, we had over 10 Prisms of Prose events. Besides book discussions, we also have book launches. We prefer to have Goan authors as Goan literature receives a good response. We also have a small library with books from The Dogears Bookshop, where readers can select the books that will be discussed,” says Nitesh. Besides book events, Prisms of Prose recently opened their Book Club, which is moderated by one of their customers, Sarah and Nitesh’s wife, Linsiya Patrao.