{"id":315507,"date":"2025-10-19T08:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T08:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/315507\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T08:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T08:05:13","slug":"free-book-boxes-open-across-kochi-for-manorama-hortus-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/315507\/","title":{"rendered":"Free book boxes open across Kochi for Manorama Hortus Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free book boxes open across Kochi for Manorama Hortus Festival<\/p>\n<p>    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-header__author-name\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Our Correspondent\">Our Correspondent<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-header__published-date\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPublished: October 19, 2025 12:51 PM IST<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  Updated: October 19, 2025 01:00 PM IST<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-header__read-time\">1 minute Read<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/horthus-book-boxes.jpg\" itemprop=\"contentUrl\" alt=\"A Hortus Reading Box at Hearth Kitchen, Panampilly Nagar, as part of the Manorama Hortus Festival in Kochi.\" title=\"horthus-book-boxes\"\/>          <\/p>\n<p>\t     \tA Hortus Reading Box at Hearth Kitchen, Panampilly Nagar, as part of the Manorama Hortus Festival in Kochi.<\/p>\n<p>Kochi: The joy of sharing is now extending to the world of book reading as well!<br \/>As part of the <b>Manorama Hortus Arts and Cultural Festival<\/b>, being held at the <b>Subhash Park in Kochi<\/b> from <b>November 27 to 30<\/b>, free \u2018Hortus Reading Boxes\u2019 have been opened at various locations across the city. Anyone can take a book from these boxes for free, read it and either return it for the next reader or gift a book from their own collection.<\/p>\n<p>Readers are encouraged to leave a brief review or note inside the book when returning it, while taking care to keep the books in good condition. While taking a book out of the Hortus Reading Boxes, participants are urged to add another book to maintain the chain of reading intact. This initiative is a celebration of the love of reading and a movement for nurturing the language. Everyone is encouraged to bring along friends and children to explore these boxes of stories and knowledge.<br \/><b>The Reading Boxes have been installed at the following locations:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Athulya and Jyothirgamaya at Kakkanad Infopark<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Story Box Caf\u00e9 in Kakkanad<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Forum Mall at Maradu<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Library at Subhash Park<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Loafers Caf\u00e9 at Fort Kochi<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Hearth Caf\u00e9 at Tripunithura<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Hearth Caf\u00e9 at Kakkanad<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Hearth Kitchen at Panampilly Nagar<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Idam Art Caf\u00e9 at Panampilly Nagar<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>67pnrbnf0e21rr9phsubveq6vh-list onmanorama-topic-destination-3-ernakulam onmanorama-topic-general-topics-77-manorama-hortus onmanorama-topic-general-topics-6-books 128ntfgpi2fbaa084na8u4mr01 uqongvkmofn9hmeo7acoj7kp4-list<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free book boxes open across Kochi for Manorama Hortus Festival &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Our Correspondent Published: October&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":315508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[158669,158664,1022,158670,171,158663,158662,158672,158671,158661,158666,158667,158665,158673,158668,158675,67,132,68,158674],"class_list":{"0":"post-315507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-book-exchange-program","9":"tag-book-sharing-kochi","10":"tag-books","11":"tag-community-reading-project","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-free-books-kochi","14":"tag-hortus-reading-boxes","15":"tag-kerala-reading-culture","16":"tag-kochi-book-lovers","17":"tag-kochi-books","18":"tag-kochi-cultural-events","19":"tag-kochi-library","20":"tag-manorama-hortus-festival","21":"tag-places-to-read-in-kochi","22":"tag-reading-initiative","23":"tag-things-to-do-in-kochi","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-where-to-find-free-books-in-kochi"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115399801191301486","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}