Padma Baliga was on a mission to set up classroom libraries, till Covid-19 stopped her forever
An admirer pieces together a life from social media posts. Padma Baliga.
When people ask me, “Do kids read these days?” in a disbelieving tone, I want to ask them, “Have you tried giving kids books? Books they want to read? Giving them to kids who have no books to read?” Padma Baliga
Padma Baliga took to hashtagging her social media posts at least three years before I did. A vocal feminist, her write-ups on phenomenal women have a liberal sprinkling of the word “badass”. Kickass, too.