In the Company of Authors

When it’s Friday evening, and the week is done, a few employees of furniture-retailer Urban Ladder step into the weekend, a book in hand.

They meet at the cafeteria of the company’s Bengaluru office to pick a book and discuss it threadbare. Recently, they discussed All the Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy.

A book is chosen on the basis of voting. Sometimes, the book discussion is followed by a get-together outside the office. Recently, members of Urban Ladder Book Club went together to watch Fantastic Beasts 2. All of them are Harry Potter lovers — that explains the choice of the film. Probably, everything, even films, has to have something to do with books.