Bangalore Events — Online Event

Tune in on 8 August for an exciting and illuminating discussion around Sanjena Sathian’s GODDESS COMPLEX—a thrilling, bitingly satirical novel about the complexities of femininity, parenthood and social norms in the modern age. Sanjena will be in conversation with Nirica Srinivasan on Champaca’s YouTube channel, and the video will also be available on YouTube after the session.  Here are the details of the event:  Date: 8 August 2025, Friday Time: 7:30PM YouTube Live Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/gy30cyhfFcw?si=pZJTD6MpdF-RrE22About the book:  Sanjana Satyananda is trying to recover her life. It’s been a year since she walked out on her husband, a struggling actor named...

In a world dominated by technology and screens, parents and teachers are often told to encourage their kids to pick up a book and turn a page. Teachers and parents often find their beloved books to be different from their children and may find it challenging to fully embrace new directions and tastes in reading. So how do we read new books for ourselves and with children? Reading a book by oneself and sharing the act of reading can be very different experiences.  A wholesome reading of a book includes understanding the character development, the plot progression, social context and more. Equally significant is...

Tune in for a very interesting conversation with Amitava Kumar and Aditya Mani Jha on Amitava’s latest work THE GREEN BOOK, published by HarperCollins India. This is an online discussion happening on the 28th of February on the Champaca YouTube channel. The video will also be available on YouTube after the session. Here are all the details about the event -  DATE - 28 FEBRUARY TIME - 7:30 PM IST YOUTUBE LIVE DISCUSSION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZVzDUgLEWc About the book -  Many of the drawings and paintings in this book are the result of the walks I have undertaken. Don't stop walking! And...

We're ending the Seagull week at Champaca bookstore with a book launch and discussion of 'To Break and to Branch' by Ranjit Hoskote with Mani Rao. The details of the event are as follows: Date- 29 June Time- 5 PM Venue- Champaca Bookstore You can RSVP on this link.    About the book:  To Break and to Branch is a collection of six essays on the artist Gieve Patel (1940–2023), written by poet, cultural theorist, and curator Ranjit Hoskote over nearly two decades, gathered together for the first time and accompanied by over fifty illustrations of Patel’s paintings. In an introductory essay written...

The second event of our Seagull week is a book launch and discussion of Chitvan Gill's 'Dreaming a Paradise: The Story of Buland Masjid' with Sushmita Pati.   About the book: In Dreaming a Paradise, Chitvan Gill draws on years of research and photographic reportage to unveil the tales of individuals driven to escape poverty, violence, and despair in search of happiness and a place to call home. At the heart of this book lies Buland Masjid, an unauthorized colony on the Yamuna riverbank in Delhi, India, which thrives with restless industry even under the unyielding grip of poverty. The women and...