Bangalore Events — event

You are all invited to the Champaca Book Club on Sunday, 31 January, 2020 at 6:30 pm IST to discuss Motherwit with the book’s author Urmila Pawar and translator Veena Deo who will be in conversation with Somak Ghoshal.  Get a copy of the book from Champaca, and join us on Youtube.     Veena Deo is professor emerita in the English department at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, where she taught between 1991-2019. At Hamline, her courses were focused in African American literature and cross-listed with Women’s Studies and Global Studies. Having studied in India and the US, she has...

On Friday, 22 January, 2021 at 7 pm IST, author Chinmay Tumbe will be in conversation with journalist Gayathri Vaidhyanathan, about his book, The Age Of Pandemics. Get your copy of the book from Champaca, and sign up for the Zoom event.   Chinmay Tumbe is passionate about migration, cities and history, and is currently a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. His first book, India Moving: A History of Migration, was published in 2018. This is his second book.Gayathri Vaidhyanathan is a multimedia reporter who writes about science and environment. Her print and audio work has...

On Saturday, 12 December, 2020 at 4 pm IST, Champaca Bookstore is hosting writer and translator, Tiffany Tsao, who will speak to us about her latest novel, The Majesties. Get your copy of the book from Champaca, and watch the event streamed live on our Youtube channel. Tiffany Tsao is a writer and literary translator. She has authored three novels, the most recent one being The Majesties (Pushkin Press, 2020). Her translations from Indonesian to English include Norman Erikson Pasaribu’s poetry collection Sergius Seeks Bacchus and Dee Lestari’s novel Paper Boats. She spent her formative years in Singapore and Indonesia before...

In our fifth Reading for Change event, we explore Rinchin’s I Will Save My Land as an entry point to SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy. I Will Save My Land is a picture book that tells the story of a young girl, Mati, who is determined to save her and her family’s plot of land from the impending development of a coal mine. Join the discussion with your questions and reflections on December 5, 2020 at 6:30 pm IST. Join author Rinchin and Shripad Dharmadhikary, an activist, researcher, and coordinator of the Manthan Adhyayan Kendra, in conversation about I Will Save My Land...

On the 12th of November, at 7pm, we'll be talking to author Gautam Bhatia about his debut speculative fiction novel, The Wall. Get your copy of the book, and RSVP for the event. The city of Sumer is a world without a horizon, bound by a wall that encloses it entirely. The novel follows Mithila and her friends, as they search for meaning: who built the Wall? Why does it exist? And can they imagine a world without it?Gautam Bhatia is a science fiction writer, reviewer, and editor with the award-winning Strange Horizons magazine. The Wall is his debut novel, and...